M42,  Great Nebula in Orion.

Date:  February 11, 2005
Camera: SBIG ST10XE
Filters:  AstroDon Ha
Camera control software:  CCDSoft
Focal reducer:  AP 0.67
Guiding/adaptive optics:  unguided, no AO7
Camera temperature:  -20C
Image Acquisition Software:  None

Telescope:  RCOS 16 Carbon Tube, Aries optics, F9
Telescope control software:  RCOS TCC, TheSky6
Mount:  Paramount ME (MKS 4000)

Subexposures:
Luminance(Ha 6nm):  10 x 20 Second, binned 1x1

Conditions: Below average seeing and transparency.
Processing: CCDStack2, Photoshop CS4. [reprocessed March 2010]
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