I have invited Astronomers and Astrophotographers to showcase their beautiful photographs of my stars. During the 2021 winter stargazing season I have seen so many fabulous pictures of my Constellation that I am curating a special Online Collection – featuring each Astronomer and their chosen Orion picture. The Pleiades – those lovely Seven Sisters – also welcome!
Thanks to all!
Then and Now: From my first ever ‘astrophotography image’ of Orion in 2017 to my HaRGB image of Orion in 2021. Now this really is progress!
Feb 19, 2021 from Shrewsbury, England – Orion dominating the Winter sky.
Astrophotography Contest 2021: Presenting Winners and Entrants.
First, Second and Third Place are ALL of my fabulous Stars and Nebula!
Top left: First Place: IC434 Horsehead Nebula By DaydreamAstro
Top right: Second Place: M42 – THE GREAT ORION NEBULA by EdHoltAstro
My tree and the mighty #Orion – what a beautiful night sky
60×200″ with SW ED80 and ASI533MC Pro.
Orion Nebula M42 and Running Man Nebula in the blue. SW80ED, Nikon D5300dslr.
Captured from my back garden in light polluted Cambridgeshire UK. HDR image of 5 hours total integration, using a small refractor telescope and a modified Canon DSLR camera. I used an Astronomik CLS-CCD EOS clip in light pollution filter.
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20/21 taken with the Takahashi FSQ-85EDX. Details also on my Website.
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LRGB image of Messier 42. Taken March 2020 from North Lincolnshire, 2 hrs data in total.
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Orion Nebula: 60 x 150s + 30 x 30s taken Fall of 2020 from Providence, RI.
M42 with the WO Zenithstar61, L-eNhance filter & Stock Canon T3i DSLR. Bortle 6/7 zone.
Orion is my favorite nebula – camera zwo 294mm pro newton ts photon 150/600 Antlia Ha 3.5nm filter cem 70 mount at my place under bortle 6.
One of my first attempts at capturing the Great Orion Nebula. Used a Celestron Evolution C8 EdgeHD with Hyperstar V4, ASI533MC Pro and ASIAIR Pro! 60 x 10 sec subs.
The Great nebula (M42) from Orion. About 25 minutes of exposure using WO Zenithstar 61 and Nikon Z6.
A unique perspective of a familiar star – Betelgeuse. After stabilising, stacking, cropping & filtering 2500+ frames, it turned out like this. Betelgeuse is a giant reddish ball of gas on fire, c640 light years away. Looks quite pretty for a mobile phone through an 8″ scope! 2/4.
I always love a ‘thru the scope’ view!
Purple Rain
My first ever tracked Astro Photo. 30 mins in Mid Jan.
Four panel mosaic of M42 shot from Buckfast, Devon. The Great Orion Nebula is never not beautiful in my opinion.
The mighty @warrior_orion Nebula – how it started; how it’s going. I’m getting happy with this now. Happier, anyway.
Orion in the winter sky from Isle of Mull, darkest place with the brightest stars.
This is 2 hours 51 minutes of 2 minute exposures with a colour camera. A moonless night too which is rare.
From B4 skies in Tasmania, Australia. 98x30sec subs.
M42 Total exposure 45 minutes. HaRGBOIIISII.
Orion´s Belt – Image by Panagiotis Xipteras.
This week’s sketch is M42 and M43 the Orion Nebula in the constellation Orion. Had a nice wide-field view of this region of Orion’s sword with my 6″ Newtonian and 32 mm eyepiece.
Check out the video for more info and time lapse of the sketch at the eyepiece:
https://youtu.be/bUlbsgJ4ccA
Total beginner, Orions Belt, with flame and horse head nebula taken 22-2-2021. 72 lights (images) & 15 dark’s stacked in Deep Sky Stacker & post processed in Photoshop.
Two frames 325 and 384 seconds ISO 2500. Taken on 8 January 2021 from Switzerland.
Venus and the Pleiades, 2020.
The Pleiades
The Pleiades
The Pleiades
Orions Center.
Nice wide shot.
My Orion in – ha.
The Pleiades.
The Pleiades.
The Pleiades.
The Pleiades.
Sonia Turkington
The cloud gases of Orion.
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Orion nebula. Taken through a Sony ILCE a6000L – ISO 1600 – 40 frames of 10 sec, stacked and processed.
Still blown out the core! Orion
I tried to capture my fave constellation.
Just above Orion’s Belt.
Beautiful clear night in a Bortle 3 location.
The Star Light of Orion punching through thin cloud.
Ready to launch.
All by yourself.
The Orion constellation through my Canon 50mm lens in HaRGB.
There you are crossing the winter sky.
Quite a dramatic shot with light clouds approaching Orion and the Pleiades over Barnsley, Yorkshire.
A selection of ‘selfies’! In the sky over Brighton & Hove, winter 2021.
