Object Info | |
Object | The center of M42. The Great Nebula in Orion |
Types | Emission Nebula |
Centered at: | RA: 5h 46m 19s Dec: -02°22'18" |
Constellation | Orion |
Magnitudes | |
Sizes | ? |
Distances | |
Age | ? |
Dimensions | |
Image Field | Approx 12 by 8 arcminutes |
Notes | Hydrogen Alpha image |
Taken from: |
Tin Shed Observatory
Gold Coast, Queensland Long - Lat = 153:23.54E - 27:56.8S |
On: |
8th and 9th March 2004 |
Image Info | |
Telescope | Celestron C11 @ f17 |
Focal Length | 4800 millimetres |
Telescope guiding | None |
Telescope control | Astrometric Sky Walker II |
CCD camera | SBIG ST-10xe |
Camera cooling | Regulated Thermoelectric |
Camera pixels | 2184 x 1472 x 6.8um |
Image scale | 0.3 arcseconds per pixel |
Processed with: | Mira A/P, Maxim DL, AIP4Win, CCDSharp, Photoshop |
Exposure times | L = 18 minutes made up of 10-second exposures. |
Image Calibrations | All sub-images Dark Subtracted, Flat Fielded. |