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Harshwardhan Pathak
Heaven's Mirror Observatory, Australia
12/19/2023
10:27 pm

Equipment Details:

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ 106EDX
Camera: QHY 600M Pro
Mount: Paramount MX+
Filters: Astrodon 2 Gen HaLRGB

Post-processing Details:

Processed in Pixinsight and Adobe Photoshop

Image Details:

Added more light to my previous Orion nebula and some amazing details and so much nebulosity in the image, added H-alpha light to get those reddish clouds around the nebula.
Popularly called the Orion Nebula, this stellar nursery has been known to many different cultures throughout human history. The nebula is only 1,500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth and giving it a relatively bright apparent magnitude of 4.

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