M42 Wide

“Orion Nebula”

Constellation- Orion

Right Ascension: Xh Xm  s

Declination: X° X' X"

Distance:  light years

Visual Brightness:  mag

Apparent Dimension:  arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- January 24, 2012

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/6.4 (Sky90 Reducer), ATIK 383L Mono @ -20C, on a HDX-110 EQ-G autoguided with PHD2.5

Integrations-  LRGB, L = 10 x 600 seconds binned 1x1, RGB = x300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDSoft, processed with Astroart 5 and Photoshop CS5