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The Great Orion Nebula |
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DESCRIPTION Few astronomical sights excite the imagination like the nearby stellar nursery known as the Orion Nebula. The Nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye just below and to the left of the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. The whole Orion Nebula cloud complex, which includes the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years. Constellation: Orion - Distance: 1,600 Light Years RA: 05h 35m 40s - DEC: -05d 27m 00s - Magnitude: 4.0 - Apparent Size: 85' x 60' |
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| Date Taken: 03/11/07 - 03/15/07 Telescope: Intes MK-69 F6 6" MakCass Camera: SBIG ST10XME Mount: Software Bisque Paramount ME Filters: Astrodon RGB Guider: Self Guided |
R 12 X 10 sec, 12 X 60sec. 6 X 600sec @ 1x1 G 12 X 10 sec, 12 X 60sec. 6 X 600sec @ 1x1 B 12 X 10 sec, 12 X 60sec. 6 X 600sec @ 1x1 Image Aquired with CCDAutoPilot |
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