DSLR Horsehead and Flame from light-polluted Johannesburg

[theastroshake]

It took a lot of PixInsight noise reduction functions to fix this one even though there were 78 light exposures and a ton of calibration files, due to the warm environment that night (2014-01-01) in our driveway in Johannesburg, South Africa. I got lucky shooting 3min exposures with my IR-modified DSLR that the thermal noise wasn't worse. Overall I'm happy with the result.

Image and equipment details are on my blog:
http://astroshake.com/2014/03/horsehead-and-flame-nebulae/

[strongmanmike]

Excellent Horsehead, David Malin would love it :thumbsup:

Mike

[gregbradley]

That's very nice. Be careful not to overdo the sharpening. The Flame neb looks really detailed. Love that gigantic diffraction spike - it adds drama.

Greg.