Free Orion Nebula Data (No longer valid) - Forums

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Oct 28, 2023 · Edited: Mar 31, 2024

Hello all,

Wanted to pass along that we are offering to all of our users and customers this set of data for free now, and for all time:

Orion Nebula | Dark Matters Astrophotography

It is 12.6 hours of M42 taken in LRGB.

Thanks,
Bill Long

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Phil Wright

Oct 28, 2023

Beautiful data thank you so much! Had a little play with my very limited skills.

Andreas

Oct 28, 2023

Thank you very much for this nice data!

CS Andreas

Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Oct 28, 2023

Phil Wright:
Beautiful data thank you so much! Had a little play with my very limited skills.

Great job!

Andreas:
Thank you very much for this nice data!

CS Andreas

You're very welcome. It's our way of letting people see the quality of our data for themselves. This exact same data set will be made available by Ed Thomas for prospective customers of the DSP Remote site as well which is where this was taken.

Bill

Dark Matters Astrophotography

Topic starter

Oct 30, 2023

Just wanted to say, it has been awesome to see people from all over the world downloading this data. Folks from the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, etc.

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Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Nov 6, 2023

Keep it coming. I would like to see some runs at the data posted here though.

Quinn Groessl

IOTD Staff

Nov 6, 2023

I played around with it a few times, but here's my final result.

Kaptas Attila

Nov 6, 2023

i gave a try as well thans for the date. its just insane quality as usual everything from you @Bill Long - Dark Matters Astrophotography

Christian Koll

Nov 10, 2023

Hello,

thanks very much Bill, your data is truely amazing!

I gave it a try as well, here is my result, I hope you like it:

CS
Chris

Grégory Fabre

Nov 11, 2023

Hi,

thank you for this quality datas. This is the first time i process monochrome datas.
I used Siril, astrosurface and gimp.

Here is the result :

Clear skies

Grégory

Abdul Thomas Jnr

Nov 22, 2023

I have tried to obtain this free data but unable to. Not sure if I need to wait for an email or not but when it finished downloading im unable to open it saying it's invalid or empty

Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Nov 25, 2023

Abdul Thomas Jnr:
I have tried to obtain this free data but unable to. Not sure if I need to wait for an email or not but when it finished downloading im unable to open it saying it's invalid or empty

This should not occur, as the data is hosted on Amazon S3 and is served out of Virginia.

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RTOWN

Nov 26, 2023

Bill - I tried downloading the data twice. Both times Microsoft said zipped file invalid. Maybe you should look into it if you want any more processing examples. Try downloading and unzipping yourself.

Oscar

Nov 26, 2023

Hello all,

Wanted to pass along that we are offering to all of our users and customers this set of data for free now, and for all time:

Orion Nebula | Dark Matters Astrophotography

It is 12.6 hours of M42 taken in LRGB.

Thanks,
Bill Long

Would've been better if you just provided a google drive link instead of making people give personal information on your website

Dark Matters Astrophotography

Topic starter

Dec 7, 2023 · Edited: Dec 7, 2023

Bill - I tried downloading the data twice. Both times Microsoft said zipped file invalid. Maybe you should look into it if you want any more processing examples. Try downloading and unzipping yourself.

I downloaded the file and it unzips properly:

Hello all,

Wanted to pass along that we are offering to all of our users and customers this set of data for free now, and for all time:

Orion Nebula | Dark Matters Astrophotography

It is 12.6 hours of M42 taken in LRGB.

Thanks,
Bill Long

Would've been better if you just provided a google drive link instead of making people give personal information on your website

Well, thats the trade-off for the free data. This is a common practice among sites that sell data and/or hosting. We also trust Amazon's S3 service (which is where all of our data is stored and provided from) moreso than Google Drive.

-Bill

Taras_M

Dec 7, 2023 · Edited: Dec 7, 2023

Hi all,

Here is my approach of the free and very clean data awarded with Top Pick Nomination and provided by @Bill Long - Dark Matters Astrophotography (thank you very much!)
I dont have any problem with sharing my personal information on astrofoto dedicated web site (even if the personal information mostly only "personal" is)
CS Taras

https://www.astrobin.com/full/ygodfo/0/#

RTOWN

Dec 7, 2023

Bill – The problem with the zip file appears to be that it never downloads completely. I have tried many times and get file sizes from 295megs to 368. I don't know what the file size should be, but if the file isn't complete, it certainly will not unzip. I rebooted my computer several times, and tried using Microsoft Edge instead of my usual Firefox. Every time I download the files, I get a different sized zip file. I haven't ever experienced problems unzipping files until now , and others seem to be having similar problems. Perhaps Amazon somehow is to blame. I appreciate what you are doing, and have continued pursuing this issue so others can use the files as a learning experience.

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Dark Matters Astrophotography

Topic starter

Dec 7, 2023

Bill -- The problem with the zip file appears to be that it never downloads completely. I have tried many times and get file sizes from 295megs to 368. I don't know what the file size should be, but if the file isn't complete, it certainly will not unzip. I rebooted my computer several times, and tried using Microsoft Edge instead of my usual Firefox. Every time I download the files, I get a different sized zip file. I haven't ever experienced problems unzipping files until now , and others seem to be having similar problems. Perhaps Amazon somehow is to blame. I appreciate what you are doing, and have continued pursuing this issue so others can use the files as a learning experience.

It's a little over 1GB in size. There's thousands of successful downloads of this data so I think things are fine on the S3 side. If you're using VPN provider, that could be causing some issues? Just a guess.

Markus Gorski

Dec 8, 2023 · Edited: Dec 9, 2023

Thank you very much for this wonderful data set!

I also tried it once, the first time for me with mono data.
Kind regards, Markus

Tareq Abdulla

Dec 10, 2023

Thank you very much for the Data.

The only regret in my life is that i downloaded Bill's data in the past with so many setups but it is gone due to a virus or ransomed hack, i wish to get that data back, it is big files with several setup he was using back in the future, it was nice a big reference for me, but i know he will not put it back again somewhere to download free, but it is ok, i keep going, i got enough data around, and this one here is nice one.

Christian Bennich

Dec 11, 2023 · Edited: Dec 11, 2023

I gave the dataset a go

Thank you for making this available.

https://www.astrobin.com/wsx4ft/

Steve Cooper

Dec 22, 2023

Thank you for sharing this awesome data!

Brian Diaz

Dec 24, 2023

Thank you very much for the Data

core close up

thank you

Arpit Anand

Jan 26, 2024

Bill — I am from a region outside of US and it's showing an error while checking out. Could you once check this issue. I would love to get your generous offering. Thank You very much in advance for the dataset.

Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Jan 26, 2024

Arpit Anand:
Bill --- I am from a region outside of US and it's showing an error while checking out. Could you once check this issue. I would love to get your generous offering. Thank You very much in advance for the dataset.

This has been downloaded successfully from all over the world at this point. What error are you encountering?

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