Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M42 Clicking on an image will display a high-resolution view.

 

Object: M42 (NGC1976)	The Orion Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: STL11000M	Scope: TEC 200FL	Mount: AP1200
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 37x2m	blank
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula. This image is a stack of 37 two minute exposures taken through an Hα filter using an SBIG STL11000M CCD camera on a TEC 200FL 8" f/8 refractor. Wavelet sharpening followed by a Sigmoid Scaling was performed using AIP4WIN V2.3.0. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Object: M42 (NGC1976)	The Orion Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP101is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα:R:G:B	Exposure: 12x4m:32x4s::32x4s:32x4s	blank
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula. The luminance channel for this image is a stack of 12 four-minute exposures taken through an Hα filter using an STL11000M CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP101is 4" f/5.4 refractor. A Sigmoid Scaling was performed using AIP4WIN V2. Each color channel is a stack of 32 four second images. The color channels were balanced using AIP4WIN's Color Calculator using G2V star calibration. The final image was composited using the G2V color balance. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672. North is to the left.

 

Hydrogen-α
Object: M42	Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: STL11000M	Scope: Tele Vue NP101is	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 12x8m	blank
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula. This image is a stack of 12 four-minute exposures taken through an Hα filter using an STL11000M CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP101is 4" f/5.4 refractor. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked and a Sigmoid Scaling was performed using AIP4WIN V2. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 4008x2672.

 

Object: M42 (NGC1976)	The Orion Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: HX-916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): L:R:G:B	Exposure: 32x10s:16x20s::16x20s:16x20s	Color channels binned 2x2
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula. The luminance channel for this image is a stack of 32 ten second 1x1 binned exposures using a 5" f/6 refractor. A Gaussian histogram shaping was performed using AIP4WIN. Each color channel is a stack of 16 twenty second images using 2x2 binning. The color channels were balanced using AIP4WIN's Color Calculator using G2V star calibration. The final image was composited using the G2V color balance. (While this sounds complicated, using AIP4WIN this was achieved with just a series of mouse clicks, no slider adjustments were necessary at all.) This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1290x999.

 

Object: M42 (NGC1976)	The Orion Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: HX-916	Scope: AP130	Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR-block	Exposure: 32x10s	blank
M42 - The Great Orion Nebula. This image is the luminance channel for the color image above. It is a stack of 32 ten second exposures using a 5" f/6 refractor. A Gaussian histogram shaping was performed using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1300x1030.

 

Hydrogen-α
Object: M42 (NGC1976)	The Orion Nebula - Emission Nebula	Const.: Orion
Camera: SXV-H9	Scope: Tele Vue NP-101	Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): Hα	Exposure: 16x4m	blank
The Great Nebula in Orion, M42. This image is a stack of 16 four minute exposures shot through a Hydrogen-alpha filter. The exposures were acquired using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Tele Vue NP-101 4" refractor. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.