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["Jon Christensen" <jonc97@xxxxxxx>]

Happy New Year everybody!!
Here are some images I took in November and December from Vekol Road.

Here's a widefield shot of M42 & vicinity:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/nebula/m42new.htm

Jay McNeil was kind enough to list some of the more obscure objects that can be 
seen in the picture:

The reflection nebula Vdb 42 - the small bluish reflection 
nebula around the ~8th mag star at the top near center 
Wolf's Smoke Ring at bottom near center
Herbig-Haro 1&2 complex at the far right.


Here's the luminance (greyscale) version of the same picture.  In tri-color 
imaging you typically create a greyscale image separately from a color image 
and then lay the greyscale image as a luminace layer over the color for the 
final picture.  I toned down the brightness for the color version because I 
thought it made the colors looked washed out.

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/nebula/m42grey.htm

Here's NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/galaxies/ngc253.htm

IC 1396 taken through an H alpha filter:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/nebula/ic1396_ha.htm

NGC 1499 - The California Nebula - taken through an H alpha filter:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/nebula/ngc1499_ha.htm

I processed this photo to emphasize the wispy details in the clouds.

Thanks for looking!!


Jon Christensen

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