M42

"The Trapezium"

Constellation- Orion

Right Ascension: 05h 35m 38s

Declination: -05° 23' 00"

Distance- 1600 light years

Visual Brightness- 4.0 mag

Apparent Dimension (whole nebula)- 85x60 arc minutes

Date- New Years Eve, December 31, 2003

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- NexStar11 GPS @f/10 and SBIG ST-8XE NABG @ -30C autoguided in CCDSoft Ver. 5.00.

Integrations: Lum= 18 x 35 seconds, 9 through clear and 9 through neutral density, binned 2x2, RGB= 9 x 35 seconds each.

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft Version 5, DDP and scaling in AIP4WIN. Color combined in Astroart 2.0