This is the Great Orion Nebula, M42. I realized this is fairly easy to see with a sufficient optical boost from my backyard which is roughly Bortle 6/7. This is my second night trying to image this object (or any DSO, actually).
This is a stack of 10x88-second exposures (roughly 15 minutes total
exposure time). Polar-alignment on my SkyGuider Pro proved to be a bit
difficult (once I added the camera and counter balance I had to
re-align), so this 15 minutes is the result of me fiddling for an hour
and a half or so. I did all the processing for this photo using libre
software. Camera/lens correction in RawTherapee, aligned using
align_image_stack in Hugin, average stacking using G’MIC,
final stacked image tone curve/RGB curve/saturation adjustments in
RawTherapee.
| EXIF | |
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| ExposureTime | 88 | 
| FNumber | 2.8 | 
| Description | This is the Great Orion Nebula, M42. I realized this is fairly easy
to see with a sufficient optical boost from my backyard which is roughly
Bortle 6/7. This is my second night trying to image this object (or any
DSO, actually). This is a stack of 10x88-second exposures (roughly 15
minutes total exposure time). Polar-alignment on my SkyGuider Pro proved
to be a bit difficult (once I added the camera and counter balance I had
to re-align), so this 15 minutes is the result of me fiddling for an
hour and a half or so. I did all the processing for this photo using
libre software. Camera/lens correction in RawTherapee, aligned using
align_image_stack in hugin, average stacking using G’MIC,
final stacked image tone curve/RGB curve/saturation adjustments in
RawTherapee | 
| Title | Orion Nebula, M42 | 
| FocalLength | 200.0 mm | 
| CreateDate | 2018-02-17 20:34:58 | 
| Lens | 70-200mm f/2.8 | 
| ISO | 400 | 
| Model | NIKON D610 | 
| Make | NIKON CORPORATION |