The Constellation Orion Orion Constellation, Space And Astronomy, Constellations
The Orion Nebula was the very first deep sky object I ever witnessed in colour via photography. I employed a point and shoot digital camera to image by means of the eyepiece of my Orion Skyquest Dobsonian back in 2010. Vibrant bright blues and pinks are revealed by means of extended exposure photography and create a masterpiece of interstellar gas and dust. Several shorter exposure sets have been stacked separately and blended into the final image applying layer masks. This is a typical image processing method to use when “taming” the core of a bright nebula or galaxy. Orion was...