Winter's 'Ol Friend

Winter is making its way back and making star gazing and nights out with the telescope much more challenging and difficult because of the cold... brrr!

So, it is a good turn of providence that I could use the facilities of SLOOH to pierce through the cold nigh sky and get some amazing shots of an old friend that comes by during this time of the year: Orion Nebula. This is situated within the belt of the constellation Orion, The Hunter. I have already grabbed a cool image of the Nebula from my earlier imaging device with the then Celestron C80ED scope one warm night at the carpark of the Holy Family parish, several years ago.

But this one from SLOOH is, by far, a much grander picture and a real feast for the eyes! I managed to use the high magification of the SLOOH scopes and gotten the wondrous image as given above. What a sight for sore eyes! Here, you can see a much better picture of the Nebula that is a remendous complex of gas, dust and stellar nurseries. This Nebula is also known as M42 on the Messier chart.