SGL 2021 challenge 8 - All about Orion

[Daf1983]

This is my attempt at M42, taken last week with a Canon 600d and 80Ed. Consists of about 2 hours worth of 1 minute subs with the l-enhance filter.

[Sunshine]

These are some great images of M42!

[Ags]

Here is my attempt, and my first entry into one of these events. 620 six second subs with an ASI485MC and Zenithstar 66 reduced to f4.3. Bortle 8 skies, full moon, no filters. Processed in APP. I want to add more data to this if I get clear skies.

Edited December 25, 2021 by Ags

[LuckieEddie]

Here's a M42. Taken with a Fuji X-T2 using a SkyWatcher N200/1000 on a Onstep modified EQ-5. 236 x 30 sec subs, no guiding. Stacked in Siril, processed in StarTools.

[Fegato]

Here is Orion and the Running Man with a fairly wide field to catch the surrounding dust and smaller reflection nebulae.

I shot some Orion subs in early December and have been waiting in vain for a chance to get some more data. I've given up now and will move on to other targets if the clouds ever clear. I guess that's why I went for the RASA - this is the result of just 9 minutes and 40 seconds of data. It was a bit noisy, so there's more noise reduction than I normally apply, but the end result has lots of dust and surrounding nebulae which is what I wanted to catch.

RASA 11v2, CEM120 (guided), ASI2400MC Pro (no filter), 26 x 20s and 30 x 2s. Processed in Pixinsight.

Edited December 28, 2021 by Fegato

[howzat]

Here is my entry. Taken in Portugal, where i travel in my Camper van for some clear skies each winter.

Equipment: SW Esprit ED80 Triplet Refractor; ZWO ASI183MM Pro Camera; ZWO LRGB filters; SW EQ6R-Pro Mount

Software: Capture with SGPro; PHD2 Guiding: Sharpcap Polar Alignment; Pixinsight 1.8.8.11

Sub-frames: Luminance: 20x10s; 20x30s; Red, Green, Blue 20x120s each

[astroenthusiast]

On 05/12/2021 at 17:42, CCD-Freak said:

I captured M78 during the new moon in November with an ASI-533MCP through a SharpStar 150 mm F2.8 Hyper Newt from my SRO site near Paducah, TX

How long was the exposure on this image??

[CCD-Freak]

1 hour ago, astroenthusiast said:

How long was the exposure on this image??

This was 200 x  2 minutes subs totaling 6.6 hours taken with an ASI-533MCP with a UV-IR filter captured and processed with Astro Art 8. 

The SS15028HNT is a real photon sponge and my SRO ( almost Bortle 1 ) dark site really helps.

Edited December 31, 2021 by CCD-Freak

[FenlandPaul]

I love using the easternmost dish of the One Mile Telescope at the Mullard Radio Observatory near Cambridge as a foreground subject - I really like the silhouette it creates.

In early December I captured Orion over it, between rain showers.  It was my first time out for near a month, so it was incredibly cathartic!

📷 Canon EOS 6D (astro-modified) with Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens at f/2.8
🔧 12x 10s exposures at IS)3200 with Kase / Alyn Wallace Starglow filter for sky (1x30s without filter for foreground)
🎞 Stacked in Sequator; edited in Lightroom & Photoshop

Hope you enjoy!

[The_Bluester]

I have spent the last month imaging M78 in Orion on every available clear night. I last imaged it via not very suitable equipment and was never very happy with the result. This year was with different everything! Different mount, different scope, different camera.

Acquisition details:

• Scope, Carbon fibre tube 10"F4 Newtonian (Skywatcher main mirror but an enlarged secondary) with a Televeue Paracorr. 
• Mount, iOptron CEM70G (Using an off axis guider not the inbuilt guider in the mount)
• Camera, ZWO ASI2600MM Pro with Astronomik LRGB and 6nm HA filters.
• 49 * 600 second HA subs, 78 * 300 second Luminance, 24, 28 and 33 300 second subs for R-G-B respectively.
• All capture using Voyager, integrated in Astro Pixel Processor and post in Photoshop CC.

This image would have to be the one I have put the most work in to so far in terms of data acquisition and processing. 

 

[LuckieEddie]

Well, you can't have an Orion topic without a few Horse Heads can you? So here's mine. Fuji X-T2, Onstep modified EQ5, Skywatcher N200/1000 (original blue version not a later 'P'). About 4 1/2 hours of 30sec subs, unguided. I had a hard time processing out the light pollution gradients on this one due to the busyness and variation across the frame. Stacked in Siril with a sequence (per frame) background removal. Processed in StartTools.

[powerlord]

Here's my Horsey and Flames from last night. It's on my new TS-Photon 150. Shot in RGBH with an asi1600. I had real problems with alnitak, with the spider reflected clearly in the RGB. I had to use the H as luminosity to try to get rid of it a bit, but it's still there. My refractor certainly better with these bright stars.

20 x 2 min subs for R,G and B

10 x 5 min subs for H

Stacked in APP, and edited in SiriL and Affinity Photo.

[KP82]

Taken yesterday. 140x 60secs w/ 25 darks, 20 flats & flat darks. Used short exposures to preserve the core.

[MichaelMan]

Orion was always my favourite constellation and I wanted to capture the Orion Nebula for a long time. 
Unfortunately from my backyard I only have a very limited FOV and for a limited time each year.
This was my first capture of the Orion Nebula and even with the limited data I was over the moon.
RedCat51 with L-extreme filter 
ASI533 
13x180 sec subs
Most of the stacking and processing done in SIRIL with final touch in Adobe Lightroom 
Captured 06/12/2021 from Bortle 5/6 in Essex 

[emyliano2000]

 

Orion rising over the cliffs of Birling Gap

On Sunday night I managed to have my first outdoor night adventure for this year.

I went to Birling Gap in East Sussex because that was one of the few places with a clear forecast.

Canon 6D modified and Tamron 15-30mm f2,8 @30mm.

1x30sec ISO1600 for the foreground and 5x60sec tracked photos for the sky.

Emil

 

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by emyliano2000

[powerlord]

One from last night. SHO of M42.

30 x 60  sec subs per channel.

Integated in APP, and processed in Siril and Affinity Photo.

 

[Pitch Black Skies]

Taken last night, 5th January 2022

180×60s lights

No calibration frames

Processed in Startools

HEQ5, ASI533MC, 130P-DS, ZWO UV/IR cut filter, Skywatcher Aplanatic coma corrector

M42 (Orion Nebula)

[slaine]

Taken on 04/01/2022, 30x240s lights @ ISO 400, 25 x darks, bias and flats. First time guiding with my new ASI120mm mono using PHD2 (and my scope/mount in my sig) with DSLR and no filter. Shot from my backyard, Bortle 5. First clear night in ... forever!!!

[Jonny_H]

Oh go on then, since others are.....

I thought I would put up my go at Horsehead Nebula taken last night (first clear night in what feels like months!).

Not a long session - only 10 x 300s lights, 10 x darks, 40 flats, dark flats and bias.

Taken with an Esprit 100ed and 2600MC Pro, guided using a SW Evoguide 50ED & 120MM mini all controlled by an ASI Air pro.

Stacked in APP and a slight tinkering in PI.

[clarkpm4242]

Embracing Alnitak

Deep sky objects within Orion.  Big on colour.  A poster maybe?  18 x 300s RASA8, ASI2600MC, NBZ dual band filter.  DSS and PS.  Cheers, Paul.

 

 

Edited January 9, 2022 by clarkpm4242

[iantaylor2uk]

Here is one from me. Photo taken on 5th Jan 2022 with WO 81 GT IV refractor with 1x Hotech flattener and L-enhance filter. I used a ZWO 071 MC Pro cooled camera with gain=200, sensor cooled to -5C, and 120 sec exposures. Around 40 images were stacked in DSS and further image processing was done using Nebulosity 4.

[Stardust]

Flame & Horse taken on 19th December 21. Televue TV85 ZWO533 Triband filter 24x5 min subs

 

Edited January 8, 2022 by Stardust
wrong file

[Magnum]

Here is mine, I have been trying to get something like this for about a couple of years.

I 2 versions starless or with stars and couldn't really decide which one to enter.

Captured on Dec 10th from my backyard observatory in Kent, England.

 18 x 15 min subs with my Atik383L+ CCD camera + 7nm Ha filter and the Samyang 135mm lens set @ f2.8

Guided, Captured, stacked, stretched & flatten background in MaximDL.

Processed in Photoshop then removed stars with starnet++ some more processing and noise reduction then put the stars back with linear dodge add and levels on that layer until they were small enough to not detract from the nebulocity.

Reduced size from 3354  to 2048  pixels for posting .

Lee

Edited January 8, 2022 by Magnum

[davew]

This is a little spot I've been meaning to image for ages. It's near Errwood Hall Derbyshire and is a little shrine built in 1889, dedicated to St. Joseph and in memory of Dona Maria Dolores de Ybarguen.  

I had three ( Why ! ? ) cameras with me and used two for this shot. The foreground with a Nikon Z6 and the sky with a Sony RX100.

Nikon Z6 - 3x 120 seconds f3.5 ISO 800 for a base layer. 10 x 10 seconds f5.6 ISO 800 for the light painting.

Sony RX 100 - 20 x 15 seconds f1.8 ISO 1600.

It got down to -5, according to my thermometer, but I remained warm with two small plain chocolate bars and a home made Mince pie 😋

Software - Lightroom, PS and Sequator. Orion was placed in the same spot as it appeared on the Nikon images.

 

Dave.

[FinleyChambers]

A nice widefield shot of Orion 

 

canon 1200D 

canon 18-55mm lens

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