anguslau
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Below is my attempt for the region. Image is a bit noisy since total exposure was quite short. I must revisit this region and its surroundings in the future for better shots.  Any comments or suggestions are most welcome!
Technical details:
Tak FSQ-106ED + 0.73x reducer, 385mm f/3.7,
EM-11, modified 5D,
iso1000, 8 x 300s exposures (total 40 mins)
Autoguided using MiniBORG50 + QHY5, PHD Guiding
stacked using DSS, processed using PS CS4
Synthetic star spikes created using StarSpikes Pro
M42 + Horsehead region
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JPGriffin
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Very nice. Trying to take a similar picture is on my astrophotography "to do list" for this winter.
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Jerry Lodriguss
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I think your image of M42 and B33 is outstanding.
Where did you shoot it from?
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Wow thats superb , is that one shot or a mosaic?
Very well done shot.
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anguslau
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I think your image of M42 and B33 is outstanding.
Where did you shoot it from?
Jerry
Thanks, Jerry! 
The location was near the Hehuan Mountain (合歡山) in Taiwan. The mountain top is >3000m, but I shot right outside my hostel which is about 2100m in altitude.
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anguslau
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Wow thats superb , is that one shot or a mosaic?
Very well done shot.
Thanks, Nils!
This is 35mm full-frame from the modified 5D camera, not a mosaic. I hope I can do a mosaic of the entire Orion region in the future... 
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Chote
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Wow, great photos.
The StarSpikes Pro also gives you very natural spike!
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super image
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Outstanding! Congrats on the excellent capture!
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Very nice indeed.
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Very nice!
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wow. one of the best images of this area i have seen. Good work
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Fantastic image -- the 5D has a really good FOV in this shot.
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It must be quite dark there!
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This is one of the best I've seen - simply fantastic!
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Absolutly outstanding!
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Amazing shot! Whatever you are doing, you're doing it right!
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Excellent work. It had to be really dark skies at that location considering that's only 40 minutes of data. Wow.
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Thats an incredible M42, very nice capture. Like others say.. that must be a crazy dark sky, even the dark dust lanes are standing out from the background
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That's beautiful. Any chance for a larger version? Would love to use as a desktop.
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Nothing to say, I think is one of the most beautiful pic I ever seen before from this area. 
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That is one rocking image!  Thanks for posting.
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anguslau
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That's beautiful. Any chance for a larger version? Would love to use as a desktop.
Thanks for your interest, Alex. Here is a larger version which I used as one of my screen savers. It is 1920x1200, cropped to correct aspect ratio from the orignal.
M42 + B33 (1920x1200 version)
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Great FOV.
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The color saturation and dynamic range in this shot is nothing short of amazing. 
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Very nice image!!
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Superb. Excellent example for snobs denigrating DSLRs and insisting on the overwhelming superiority of astroCCDs. Still, a very short integration time for so deep an image.
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Here is a link to a astro ccd image totaling 40 hours exposure done by well known astro imagers of the same region.
http://www.starvistas.com/2009/06/07/definitive-image-of-the-belt-and-horsehead-region-of-orion/
I think the dslr image is better.
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Infreakincredible!! The only thing it's missing is a frame!!!
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The only tiny criticism I would make is the diffraction spikes around ngc 2023. This can easily be fixed using noels tools. Using per selection only and inverse select.
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anguslau
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The only tiny criticism I would make is the diffraction spikes around ngc 2023. This can easily be fixed using noels tools. Using per selection only and inverse select.
Hi Bob, Thanks for the comments and suggestions!
Since the spikes were added using software, I can erase the spikes effects around NGC2023 easily.
Actually there are two much more serious defects with this image which may not be apparent in this reduced size format. The first one is weired and very strong diffration spikes from Epsilon Ori (middle star of the belt). I believe this star falled right on the edge of the sensor or its frame, causing a large blue halo and very strong spikes on the left edge of the frame. It took me a long time to tame it down, but you can notice some trace of unnaturalness around the area if you look closely.
The other one is that there were some near horizontal spikes on brights stars close to the upper-right hand quadrant of the frame. This is because the frame is extremely close to a power line overhead! It was my fault since I picked a poor spot to setup my equipment. I was very lucky that the power line was not inside the frame and its effects can be largely masked by adding star diffraction spikes on top.
Although I was quite pleased with this image. To be honest, taking this image has a lot of luck involved. Weather on the high mountain was changing rapidly on that night and even rained for a couple of hours. We waited unitl 3am before the sky finally cleared. Then I noticed the overhead power line was bisecting Orion right near M42!  Since I only have about 1.5 hours imaging time left for the night, in stead of wasting time to relocate my equipment, I decided to take my chances and start imaging right away... 
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Alex Post
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Thank you Angus. I said it before, will say again: amazing picture and now my all time favorite.
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