M42/43 and a 60% full waning gibbous Moon

A Pentax K-x DSLR fitted with a UV/IR cut filter was placed at the prime focus of a 5", f/10 Maksutov and the Moon was imaged with a single shot:
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The same camera fitted with a light-pollution filter was placed at the prime focus of an apochromatic, 80mm, f/5.5 refractor. 34 x 10s exposures were captured at ISO 12800 before fog prevented more imaging. The images of the Orion Nebula were captured in RAW format and were stacked in Deep-Sky-Stacker:


Steve Wainwright