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Old 31-08-2006, 05:09 PM
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Witch Head Neb - IC 2118

OK since the moon is out and the weather's been yuck, I thought I'd post a pic from last week when I was imaging The Pleiades.
I am reluctant to post this, it's a single shot, the only one I took of IC 2118 but I'll post it anyway.
The Witch Head nebula (IC 2118) is near Rigel in Orion and the light from Rigel illuminates the area.

It was very low in the eastern horizon just before dawn and it's a single 105 sec exposure at 1600 ISO.
I didn't bother to frame it properly either, I was just curious as to what I'd capture.

As you can see it's very noisy and I've processed it quite a bit to bring out any detail.
It's on my hit list this coming season so hopefully I'll get a better version.

I've also got a link to one that Gary Stevens did on APOD for reference.

Cheers
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