Scope - Meade LX50 10"br/Guide Scope - Celestron 80mm + SSAGbr/Mount - CGEMbr/Camera - Canon 5Dbr/Exopsure - ISO 400, 16 Sec.br/Processing - Levels, Curves, 3 copies of same image stacked at different exposures.br/Object - M42, M43 - A diffuse nebula situated south of Orions Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the Winter night sky. Distance - 1,344 ± 20 light years (a unit of length, equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres or 6 trillion miles. A light-year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year) and is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth. Mag. +4.0