Astrophotos

The Great Orion Nebula

M42 & M43 The Great Orion Nebulae & its Core Complex known as the Trapezium Region. Image Credit: John Chumack

The Great Orion nebula is one of the brightest nebulae visible in the night sky. It is located about 1300 light years away in the southern part of the Orion’s belt.

We’ve collected several amazing images of the Great Orion nebula submitted by readers online. Here’s hoping that you’ll enjoy them as much as we did!

The image above was obtained by John Chumack from the high res close-up image of Trapezium taken with his 10” scope ( 30 sec., 1 minute, & 5 minutes) in his backyard in Dayton combined with the image taken using his homemade 16” scope data (10 minutes) taken at his observatory in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Marco T. captured this image using a Canon EOS 500D camera. Here are some specs he provided:
80x40sec 800iso – 31dark – 30bias temp. 6°c
SKYWATCHER ED80 PRO BLACK DIAMOND – camera guide QHY5
HIGH light pollution (Rome – Italy)

This image was taken by Kevin Jung at the James C. Veen Observatory in Lowell, Michigan. It was a stack of three individual 60-second exposures captured using a Canon EOS 40D camera.

  Patrick Cullis captured this image using a 4″ Meade SCT with 5D Mk II on Orion Sirius Equatorial Mount.