M42 in Orion

Right Ascension: 05h 35m 36s

Declination: -5° 26' 38"

Distance: 1600 light years

Visual Brightness: 4.0 mag

Apparent dimension: 85x60 arc minutes

Thus image is of the lower arms of the Orion Nebula taken while beta testing Celestron's beta motor controller firmware

Image information:

Date taken- December 26, 2003

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- NexStar11 GPS @ f/6.3, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C autoguided with CCDSoft Ver 5.0

Integrations- 6 x 600 seconds binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in Astroart 2.0, Histogram shaping with AIP4WIN.