Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)
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Alnitak
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Alnitak

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8x90s @ ISO400 (Canon 450D). Mostly intended to just collected Alnitak data, but was pleased the modified LPF2 of the 450D picked up a good amount of nebulosity also. Processed in PixInsight with superbias (repaired HSvV, PSF decon, BDE, SCNR, ATrousWavelet transform). While obviously very noisy, the NGC2024 "flame" part looks pretty good (this version is rotated from the original). I intentionally panned away from the nearby horsehead itself, since I plan on doing that properly lately. This was mostly an initial checkout of the .63 reducer.

Version A is 100% calibrated and processed in PI.

Version B is stacked with DSS, stretched in PI, and some additional saturation/edits in PS CS6.

Version C is stacked with DSS, stretched/edits with PS CS6.

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