Bhopal photographer takes 4,000 shots of Orion Nebula, netizens hail 'fantastic' outcome

Defying the barriers of expensive gadgets or circumstances, a Bhopal photographer has managed to achieve the ‘breathtaking’ image of the Orion Nebula after clicking 4,000 shots of the sky by using a technique called ‘Stacking’. Because he did not have a high-end professional camera or a telescope to see the sky, using just an entry-level DSLR Nikon D3100 with  70-300 mm telephoto lens and a tripod, Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon posted the image on Reddit. Sharing both the single exposure single along with the final rendered image that had merged 4,000 clicks, Jadon managed to astound thousands of internet users.

Orion Nebula is nearly 1,344 light-years away from the Earth and its basically a cloud of Hydrogen gas suspended in the outer space. It is the gases of this nebula that later act as the initial building blocks by which new stars are eventually born. While Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon only had basic equipment, usually the Orion Nebula is photographed using a motorized tracking mount or by travelling to a dark area. While sharing on Instagram and Reddit, the astrophotographer wrote, “Bidding goodbye to 2020 with an object that signifies new beginnings.”

He added, “Since I could not afford to buy an expensive tracker or a big telescope, I took almost four thousand images of the Nebula over the course of 3 nights at 6-7°C and merged them together using a technique called "Stacking". This image was taken from the roof of my house from within the city (Bortle 6-7 skies)⁣⁣” before elaborating the equipment, settings and the software he used to render the image.

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Andromeda Galaxy in 3,000 shots

Orion Nebula is not the only capture by Vedant Pratap Singh Jadon, earlier, he captured the Andromeda Galaxy in 3,000 shots which is nearly 2.5 million light-years away. On October 31, he had also elaborated about the lack of equipment and thus investing time and effort to render a breathtaking image of the galaxy using the same technique called 'stacking'. While explaining the image, he said, "The images were shot from a basic entry-level camera and taken from Bhopal, India under Class 6-7 Bortle Sky.⁣⁣"

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