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This is an old post from November 2011. At the time, deep sky astrophotography was still very new to me. Since then, I have photographed the Orion Nebula and Running Man Nebula several times, and it’s still one of my all-time favorite deep-sky targets. Interestingly enough, this post talks about my first time using an…