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DATE:
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Saturday, November 25, 2006
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TIME:
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12:49 am - 1:23 am EST
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CAMERA:
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Canon
EOS 300D Digital Rebel (unmodified)
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EXPOSURE:
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16 minutes (16 x 1 minute @ ISO 400)
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LOCATION:
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Kalamazoo Nature Center - Owl Observatory |
INSTRUMENT:
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Meade
12" LX200 SCT @ f/6.3 with Lumicon Giant Easy Guider |
PROCESSING:
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Images obtained with DSLRFocus 3.
Dark frame subtracted, aligned, stacked,
enhanced and cropped with
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
COMMENTS:
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Four
degrees below the middle star in Orion’s
Belt is perhaps the grandest Deep Sky Object visible from Earth.
To the unaided eye it appears as a fuzzy
star, but even binoculars can reveal the basic shape seen in this
photograph. It’s the Great Nebula in
Orion – a star forming region 1,600 light-years away. The main
portion of the nebula is listed as
M42 in Messier’s Catalog. The “head” of
the nebula, with the star in the center, is cataloged as M43.
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