The nebulas of Orion in the Belt and Sword of Orion area. Including M42, Orion Nebula 9below centre), Barnard's Loop (at left), M78 (small reflection nebula above centre), Horsehead Nebula (centre) and NGC 2024 (above Horsehead). There is faint reflection nebulosity at right -- the frame does not extend right far enough to show the Witchhead Nebula near Rigel. This is a stack of 10 x 7 minute exposures at f/2.8 with the Canon 135mm L series lens and filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 640. One exposure had soft stars from high altitude haze which added the glows around stars naturally. Shot from Coonabarabran, Australia, December 14/15, 2012. This is a better version than #1 shot the night before under some haze and cloud.
The Milky Way of a late May night, in 2017, with Saturn amid the Milky Way at right, near the dark lanes of the Dark Horse. SHot from home in Alberta (latitude 51° N) as part of a time-lapse sequence testing the Star Adventurer Mini tracker and motion controller. Messier 6 star cluster, one of the most southerly Messier objects is just above the trees at right. The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (aka M24) and Scutum Star Cloud (above) are the bright patches in the Milky Way. The Lagoon Nebula, M8, is the pink patch below M24. This is a single 22-second exposure at f/2.2 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D and 35mm lens, one frame from a motion-control panning sequence.
