# Orion Nebula multiband 2x2 mosaic - IR(G+B)

- By: Brainandforce
- Date: 2026-04-03
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orion_Nebula_multiband_2x2_mosaic_-_IR(G%2BB).jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Orion_Nebula_multiband_2x2_mosaic_-_IR%28G%2BB%29.jpg/1920px-Orion_Nebula_multiband_2x2_mosaic_-_IR%28G%2BB%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

If you could see into the near infrared, the Orion Nebula might look something like this.

This multiband study of the Orion Nebula covered the near infrared, red, green, and blue bands along with H-alpha and \[O III\] emission. This image was assembled by adding infrared data to the red image channel, red data to the green image channel, and green data to the blue image channel. The resulting IR(G+B) palette reveals cool stars and stars extinguished by dust in red, hydrogen emission in green, and oxygen emission combined with reflection nebulosity in blue.

Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i (strain wave German equatorial mount)

Telescope: Apertura CarbonStar RC8 (Ritchey–Chrétien telescope, 203 mm aperture, 1624 mm focal length, no reducer or flattener)

Camera: Touptek ATR533M (Sony IMX533 monochrome sensor)

Filters:

SVBONY 685 nm NIR (red channel) (555×15s)

Touptek R (green channel) (384×20s)

Touptek G (blue channel) (384×20s)

Touptek B (blue channel) (384×20s)

Software: NINA, SIRIL, GIMP

No AI tools were used in the making of this image.