How to Find Orion Nebula M42 and take Photo

With simple trick
Using Android Apk Star Chart , easy to pointing location of Orion
Pointing the same with smartphone directoin, and pointing with Camera.

Rule 1
Clear Sky
Orion Nebula or M42 always not far away between 2 star, between Rigel and Betelgeuse star.
And closer with 3 star, like Alnitak Star.
Magnitude +4
Radius of Orion Nebula about 12 ly, big and brightness.
Distance from Earth, 1300 ly

Google Photo
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Camera
Nikon D5100
Nikon 18-50mm
Tamron 70-300mm

Take photo Orion Nebula
Increase ISO Values: With longer focal lengths for example 200mm and exposure times of 2.5 seconds, if you go for the normal iso values for astrophotography, you will end up with a very underexposed image with no details at all. Moreover, with deep sky objects being very faint, these iso values will not record any details at all, and the image will look plain black.

In order to overcome this situation, you need to choose an appropriate ISO value so the camera can record the details of the deep sky objects. Be warned that this will also increase the amount of noise in the image but with untracked astrophotography, this becomes a necessity.
Where's Orion?
The constellation of Orion, the hunter is well-known for several reasons. First, it straddles the celestial equator, making it visible throughout the world. Second, most of its stars are bright enough to see with unaided eyes, even under light-polluted skies. And finally, the constellation readily evokes a human figure, making it recognizable.

The Orion Nebula also called the M42, is an emission nebula and one of the brightest nebulae in the night sky that, if you are in a clear dark sky area, you will be able to see it with naked eyes, sometimes even in moderately light polluted areas with dark skies. It is an interstellar cloud with a magnitude of 4. It is part of a large nebula system or molecular cloud complex that extends throughout the Orion constellation.

There are other objects like the running man nebula, flame nebula, Horsehead nebula, Barnard's loop, witch's head nebula, etc. that make up this system called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex and when photographing the Orion Nebula, you are likely to photograph the nearby nebulae and other features of the Orion constellation depending on how clear the atmospheric conditions and light pollution are.

Just like how we have the Milky Way season every year, the best time to shoot the Orion Nebula or the constellation is from Fall through to the Winter season in the Northern Hemisphere. During this time from about October through to April, the core of the Milky Way Galaxy will not be visible, but you can instead photograph the beautiful show put on by the Orion constellation.

In December, Orion is high up in the sky at about midnight. You could even photograph the Orion Nebula when it rises or sets, along with some beautiful foregrounds.