M42

Peter Van EngelFree@peetbeard

• Astrophotography in Belgium

• M 42Orion Nebula
• IC 428
• M 43Mairan's Nebula
• NGC 1973
• NGC 1975
• NGC 1977the Running Man Nebula
• NGC 1980Lower Sword
• NGC 1981Upper Sword
• Orion's Sword
• Sh2-281
• ι OriHatysa

This morning, around 4:00 AM, I captured my very first image ever of M42 in the constellation Orion using the Seestar S50—consisting of 10-second sub-exposures. I stopped the session at 5:15 AM due to the arrival of light cloud cover. I processed the image within the Seestar app, applying the RGB curve function and removing a small satellite trail using the new features added in the latest upgrade. I then performed some additional editing in Snapseed; I’m very pleased with the result.