Here’s my final stacked and processed image of M42, the...

Here’s my final stacked and processed image of M42, the Orion Nebula (most of the thick clouds of hydrogen at the bottom), M43 De Mairan’s Nebula (spherical cloud in the middle), Sh2-279 Running Man Nebula (top). I shot the 17 frames that went into this image from my backyard, and each of those frames took 5 minutes to complete. The crazy thing is that each frame is a 300 second exposure that lets the camera count photons (a particle that represents of quantum of electromagnetic radiation) that have traveled a little more than 1300 years through space from the reflected starlight of a nebula to earth, then through our atmosphere to land on the camera’s sensor. That’s what astrophotography is all about: counting photons. http://SaltwaterWitch.com/astronomy