The Orion Nebula

[mariosi]

The Great Orion Nebula

 (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebulasituated in the Milky Way, being south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion.It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky. M42 is located at a distance of 1,344 ± 20 light years and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light years across. It has a mass of about 2000 times that of the Sun. Older texts frequently refer to the Orion Nebula as the Great Nebula in Orion or the Great Orion Nebula(Wikipedia)

An old sketch of Orion Nebula ,and I used  image processing. Here is the result and I hope you like it. 

DAY: Thursday    DATE: 23/12/14
TIME: 20:05    SEEING: 3/5
CONSTELLATION: Orion
TYPE: Nebula
SCOPE: Dob 200mm Synta S/W F.L.1200/f6
EYEPIECES: Ultra Wind 15mm S/W F.O.V. 66°
FILTER OF TYPE: UHC-S
MAG:80X
LOCATION OF SITE: Mammari

Marios 

 

[Wiu-Wiu]

Very nice!! 

[Sky-J]

Lovely sketch!

[mikeDnight]

Glorious! 

[mariosi]

Thank you all for the kind words! 

Marios

[Hayduke27]

Beautiful sketch of a wonderful object.  Great work!

[mariosi]

12 hours ago, Hayduke27 said:

Beautiful sketch of a wonderful object.  Great work!

Thank you very much my friend! 

Marios

[Mr niall]

Amazing!

[mariosi]

Hello Niall,

Thank you so match .Amazing target with beautiful viewing through the eyepiece! 

Marios 

[niallk]

Stunning sketch!!  That should be in a frame on your wall

The shade of green is spot on to what I see at the EP.

-Niall (another one )

[mariosi]

Thank you Niall! 

Marios

[N3ptune]

I would say it's the best drawing I've ever seen of Orion. Wow Mariosi, thanks for sharing, truly an impressive piece.

[mariosi]

Hello N3p, thank you very much! 

Marios

[PurpleFringe]

On 24/11/2017 at 15:20, mariosi said:

An old sketch of Orion Nebula ,and I used  image processing.

Lovely drawing!

I'd heard of image processing for images, but not for sketches before. Imagine building up a super sketch out of multiple sketches...

[JeremyS]

Beautiful

[Prospector15]

A beautiful sketch!

[mariosi]

Thank you all!

[Pete Presland]

An excellent representation of what is visible at the eyepiece, how long did it take to sketch Mariosi?

[mariosi]

Geia sou Pete,

Congratulations for your work (1 Satellites March 2017 ).Brilliant!!

This sketch is an old sketch 2014.About one and a half hours. .....(I'm not sure)

Marios