Colours Of Space: Orion Nebula by Mark Coull

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42) is a diffuse nebula situated in the Milky Way. It is situated south of Orion’s belt in the constellation of Orion. It is one of the brightest nebulae in the night sky and is visible to the naked-eye.

The Orion Nebula is 1,344 light years from Earth. The M42 nebula is estimated to be 24 light-years across and have a mass 2,000 times of the sun.

This is my version of a HOO image of the Orion Nebula using a dual band narrowband filter. I managed to capture all the surrounding dust and made this the focus of the image by reducing the surrounding stars quite considerably. I also took some shorter exposures of the core and blended the two images so you can clearly see the Trapezium core.

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