And another Horsehead

[Nikolas]

Horsehead Nebula
Some old data reworked with better techniques
TS- Photoline apo 130 f7
Optolong L-Pro Filter
Altair 0.6 reducer
60 x180 sec subs
ZWO Asi 294MC Pro
Asiair
NEQ6 pro
Stacked in Astropixel processor reprocessed with Pixinsight all the Russel Croman addons and some final process in Photoshop


Astrobin added (https://www.astrobin.com/y8hyte/)



Tried to keep it as natural as possible

[JA]

Lovely Nik - you've go to love that wall of Ha backdrop :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Best
JA

[alpal]

Hi Nik,
great detail in your image and you even show the curtain above the Horsehead
which is difficult normally due to noise.
Well done.
It would be good to see a full sized image.

cheers
Allan

[Dave882]

Fantastic work Nik! Yes I like the natural look too but still lots of contrast and beautiful colour

[Nikolas]

Thanks everyone Astrobin (https://www.astrobin.com/y8hyte/) now added for large image

[alpal]

Thanks - that's a great image at full size.

[Stephane]

Lots of nice faint gas in the background. Really well captured and processed. Well done!

[Garyh]

Nice, Astrobin version is a keeper. Lots of fainter dusty stuff and Alnitak is controlled super well. Don't know how you did that! :thumbsup:

[Nikolas]

Thanks

In Pixinsight I corrected the stars in Blur exterminator, then sharpened the image and stars in BlurX. For Alnitak I removed the stars in the linear state and slowly used histogram transformation to stretch them.
Stretched the image separately.
Recombined the stars and finished it off in Photoshop.

[jaleung]

Great image captured and processed!

[Nikolas]

Thanks Jason

[Craig_]

Fantastic image!

[Nikolas]

Thanks Craig