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hi,
while taking a closer look at the M42 i took quite some time ago in punggai, I realized that there is a strange ring around a star near the M42 region. but i cant seem to find anything on my star chart that indicates a nebula there.
At first i thought it was the final processing which might have made the weird ring appear.. or that there's some unknown pesky stuff stuck to my lens. so i dug out all the raw unprocessed photos which has the nebula in different positions of the frame, with different ISO settings and different Exposure time and the ring is still there.. attached below are raw photos from the modified 10D with no post processing other den conversion form raw to 8 bit, and levels stretched to highlight the "nebulosity" anyone else who had taken M42 in that region which included that star. could verify if its there too? or anyone could help give a positive ID to that??
