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in #abstract21 days ago

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I have been blown away by this image. It might not be the best shot of the Orion Nebula, but it was my first ever attempt from when I got my star tracker.
I am new to all this tracking stuff and this was just a test shot, if I remember rightly the original shot was about 30 shots which I combined.

The Orion Nebula, (aka Messier 42 (M42)), is a vast cloud of dust and gas in space where new stars are actively being born. It is one of the most studied and photographed objects in the night sky, serving as the closest region of massive star formation to Earth.

It is roughly 24 light years across and is 1344 light years away from earth, it's things like this that absol