M 43 (NGC 1982) Bright Nebula in Orion
Located at: RA 05 hours 35 minutes 29 seconds, Dec -05 degrees 16 minutes 30 seconds
Size: 7.0' x 4.0'; Magnitude: 9.0'; Class: Emission
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 140 minutes (14 x 10 minute subs), 03/12/2008; seeing 3.2-4.6 FWHM per CCDStack |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | M 43 is the small 'detached' nebulosity in the center of this image. The core of M 42 is so bright that the *nebulosity* caused the camera to bloom in these 10 minute subs. I was not trying to record M 42, so just left the core (trapezium area) burned out |