Trapezium Comp with Galileo Sketch + Details

[AztecastroMcJ]

been busy doing some homework and processing on

The Trapezium aka Theta 1 Orionis tight open cluster and

Theta 2 Orionis (double?), and I decided to add sketch done by Galileo in 1617.

took 30sec avi @10fps stacked about 200frames

def try this again in future, seeing was very bad this night, 26.9.10

Feel Free to add ur own version to this post, would be good to see others attempts/versions

heres link to one of best amatuer images i found on net

http://geogdata.csun.edu/~voltaire/roland/m42trap3.html

make sure u check his other images too (link at bottom of page)

and another using the 8.2m VLT (very large telescope)

with loads of info aswell

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0104/

enjoy details click on pic

James

[markarian]

Here's my version of the Trapezium - overexposed as always with M42. Taken with a 180mm Mak-Cass at f15.

Mark