Besides the Orion Nebula itself, this image captures the entire "sword" area of Orion. The purplish reflection nebula above M42 is the NGC 1973-5-7 complex.
Photographer - Rick Steiner
Settings/Equipment - Astrophysics Traveller refractor (105mm f/5.8) @ prime focus,
Super Polaris mount; 16 min manually-guided exp. on Fuji Super-G 800.
Location, Date and Time - OCA Anza site; 1 March 1998, 0630 UT
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