M42 in Hubble Palette

For this image I combined data from 2019 with data acquired during Dec and Jan 2020/21. It adds to over 20 hours of narrowband data, arranged in the classic Hubble palette (SHO). Some RGB data from an old image from 2012 was also used to improve star colors.

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IMAGING DATA
Optical train: AP167FLZ + flattener
Mount: AP1100 CP4
Guiding: QHY5II-L, 50/260 guidescope.
Camera: QHY600M (-10C) and QHY163M (-20C)
Filters: Astrodon 2nd Gen 3nm H-alpha,OIII, SII
Frames: 63x5-min + 66x100sec + 192x60sec in H-alpha, 37x5-min + 146x100sec + 100x60sec in OIII, and 42x100sec + 80x60sec in SII, all binned 1x1.
Processing: PI 1.884 + Adobe Camera Raw
Date: Nov 2019 and Dec/Jan 2020
Place: General Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seeing & transparency: varying conditions (suburban skies)

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