Emission & Reflection Nebula M42
(NGC1976)
“Orion Nebula”

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<Image : Orion Nebula>
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<<Photography Data>>
Date: October 22nd, 2004.
Location: Mito, Ibaraki, Japan.
SIGMA APO TELE MACRO 300mm F4.0 lens (diaphragm F4.0)
IDAS LPS-P1 Filter
Vixen GP·D equatorial mount
automatically guided with D80mm f560mm refractor + ST-V
BITRAN cooled CCD camera BJ-41L(-8.0 °C)
IDAS Type Ⅲ RGB separation filter
R,G and B images were taken with 2×2 binning
Exposure: L;1min. ×50 frames + 5min. × 10frames
R,G and B;1 min. ×2 frames + 30sec. × 2 frames each
LRGB composition (total exposure time 109min.)
Image processed with StellaImage4 & The GIMP.

Central region of M42 “Orion Nebula”

<Image : Central region of Orion Nebula>
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<<Photography Data>>
Date:November 8th, 2004.
Location: Johoku, Ibaraki, Japan.
ASKO 400mm Newtonian (f2250mm F5.6)
Canon EOS Kiss Digital (set up to ISO800)
exposure: 15sec. ×17 frames (total exposure time 4min.15sec.)
Drak noise subtracted with RAP.
Image processed with StellaImage4 & The GIMP.

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