After a short hiatus travelling and a Full Moon...I was hanging to capture this beauty because my FOV with the FLI 16803 and FSQ combo frames it perfectly and now is the perfect time of year to image it over an entire night.
This is the other Horsehead Nebula in the sky but it gets imaged much less than its more famous cousin in Orion, partly because it is big (need at least a 4deg X 4deg FOV to fit it all in properly) and partly because it is faint.
This is a straight LRGB taken over two nights in mostly good conditions and no Moon, all image capture details are under the image at the link below
Nice one Mike. Never tried this one myself in fact I barely new it existed until occasional images of it started popping up. Yours is one of the best I've seen.
Hi Mike,
Congratulations!!
That is the best blue horse I have ever seen, a winner by many lengths!
Yours is way deeper showing more of the background dusty stuff than Rogelio's https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090521.html
I thought Rogelio had a good horse until I saw yours!!
Wow!!
Makes me want to process the mosaic data I have of the blue horse sitting on my hard drive somewhere....Hmmmmm!!
Cheers,
Tim
Fantastic Mike!! Definitely the best I’ve seen of this region. Has me wanting to image this with a 135mm to get the FOV but there is no competing with 106mm of aperture there.
Fantastic Mike!! Definitely the best I’ve seen of this region. Has me wanting to image this with a 135mm to get the FOV but there is no competing with 106mm of aperture there.
Yeah go for it Col...what about a mozaic with the 8" F3
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Originally Posted by Lognic04
WOW!!! That is spectacular! You can even see how far the light from the brightest star goes in to the dust, the faintest dust is illuminated!!!
Cheers Logan, yes the influence of Nu Scorpii is rather far reaching huh?
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Originally Posted by LewisM
You must live in a Canberra in an alternate universe Mike - can't remember a clear night in 14 days now
It's a nice image!
Thanks Lewis and hey, just gotta grab what ya can. I got two clear nights in a row out at Wallaroo for this one ..unfortunately it was cloudy during the day between nights and my batteries didn't get much charge, so I was cut a little short on the second night when my batteries got a bit too low and to avoid shortening their life I cut the session a little short, could have perhaps grabbed 1 or 2 more hrs of Lum had that not occurred
