Orion Nebula (M 42)
The nearest large stellar nursery, visible even to the naked eye.
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Buy in the shopAbout the object
The Orion Nebula (M42) lies about 1,350 light years away and is visible to the naked eye under dark skies as a fuzzy star in Orion's Sword. At its core shines the Trapezium, a group of young stars whose radiation lights up the whole cloud.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 30 October 2025
- Total exposure
- 3 h 35 min (43 × 300 s)
- Camera
- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Mount
- ZWO AM5N
- Location
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (home observatory)
- Calibration & stacking
- Siril 1.4.0-beta4
- Processing
- Adobe Lightroom 8.5.1 (Windows)
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