Horsehead & Flame Nebulas

[plmilligan1968]

Hi all

At last a clear night arrives, it's been cloud and rain for weeks, that's after the snow disappeared. I know most of you here live in warmer southern climates (lucky so and so's).

Any how's I nabbed some time collecting photons from the Alnitak region.
It was a half moon, so the exposures were quite noisy.

Takahashi Epsilon 160
Canon EOS 400 DSLR [unmodded]
EQ6 Pro
Manually Guided using WO Megrez 80 & GSTAR-EX
24 x 210 Exposures [84 minutes] @ ISO 800

http://eyetotheuniverse.com/DSLR%20PhotoPages%20-%20HH%20&%20Flame.htm
Widefield

http://eyetotheuniverse.com/DSLR%20PhotoPages%20-%20HH%20&%20Flame%20Cropped.htm
Close Up

Clear skies all & thanks for looking.
Cheers!
Paul M..

[davidpretorius]

They are lovely Paul

[Lester]

Very nice Paul, I like the presentation of your image also.

Welcome to IIS.

[desler]

Yes Paul, Have to be happy with your work. Nicely presented.


Darren

[strongmanmike]

Nice clean looking images Paul, rather reminicent of film images really..? :confuse3: but better.

Some nice things can be done with those Tak astrographs

Mike

[telecasterguru]

Paul,

I like the widefield but they both look great.

Frank

[plmilligan1968]

Cheers everyone for your comments, much appreciated!
The Alnitak region is a great area to capture, there is so much going on.

Next time I will image it without the addition of moonlight noise ;O)

All the best
Paul M..