The very first constellation I learned to recognise was Orion. Perhaps it's fitting that the very first presentable deep space image I did was also related to it.
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| The Orion Nebula (M42/NGC1976) |
The Orion Nebula is visible to the naked eye, but cannot see much details to fully appreciate the beauty of it. The nebula is essentially what makes up the second star of Orion's sword. A wider field view of Orion with the nebula visible as a large bright blob is shown below (copied from Wikipedia):
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| Orion (from Wikipedia) |
The first photo shown was taken from a Canon 550D fixed to NexStar 4SE on prime focus. 32 frames of 2seconds stacked with 10 dark frames on Deep Sky Stacker and then readjusted on Photoshop. It is obviously far from perfect. I think you need about 100 shots to make a good composite image. But as a beginner's attempt, I think it is pretty good.
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