Date: 17th February 2010
Time: 6pm
Location: Weston, Hitchin, Herts, UK (about 52o north)
Telescope: Not Used
Camera: FujiFilm FinePix F200 EXR
Magnification (telescope): N/A
Exposure (camera): 8 seconds
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| Orion Constellation |
Here is a photo of Orion I took at about 6pm on Wednesday 17th February, 2010.
I decided to not use my telescope for this shot, but to just stick my camera on a tripod and point it at the constellation.
I’m reasonably happy with it. You can easily see the main stars in the constellation (Betelgeuse in the top left corner and Rigel in the bottom right), and you can resolve the Orion Nebula, Messier 42 (M42, NGC 1976) – the brightest diffuse nebula in the sky – which is about 2/3 of the way down the image (in the dagger), just slightly to the right of centre. It looks slightly fuzzier than the other stars in the image.
Tags: 130P, Astrophotography, Betelgeuse, constellation, explorer, EXR, F200, finepix, fujifilm, M42, Messier Object 42, NGC 1976, nubula, orion, Rigel, sky-watcher