Theme: Astronomy
1- Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS)
2- New Moon
3- Orion Nebula
4- Venus passing between the Sun and Earth (and 4 sun spots on sun surface)
5- The Milky Way
Sunday Nature Stills – 2/12/2012
Another deep space image this week.
This is the Orion Nebula. It is about 1,340 light years away from earth. You can faintly see it as the center “star” in Orion’s “sword”. This image is a ~7 hour exposure made by stacking many sub-exposures as I described a few weeks ago. I took this with a normal telephoto lens and my normal camera.
Michael Fuchs Photography 