2022-12-22 M42 Orion Nebula

My second attempt at photographing Messier 42, this time from the light-polluted sky of Bergen city.

There are some pretty obvious color fringing on the stars, mostly caused by leaving the lens wide open, but other than that I think it came out quite well. You can even see some structure in the nebula. Pretty neat.

If the nebula is this visible in the middle of a bortle scale 8 city I'm really looking forward to capturing it under some actual dark skies.

Metadata

• Location
  • Name: Bergen, Norway
  • Lat Long: 60.31, 5.27
  • Datetime: December 22nd, ~21:00h
  • Bortle Scale: Class 8
• Gear
  • Camera: Fujifilm X-T1
  • Lens: Pentax Takumar 135mm f/2.5
  • Tracking: None/Tripod
• Exposure
  • Aperture: f/2.5
  • Focal Length: 135mm
  • Shutter Speed: 5/2s
  • ISO: 1600
• Processing
  • Light Frames: 100
  • Raw Conversion: RawTherapee
  • Stacking: DeepSkyStacker
  • Total Exposure: 4min 10s
  • Editor: GIMP