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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, Liam Murphy
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, Liam Murphy
The Horsehead and Flame Nebula
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula

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A couple months ago I had the plan to image the famous horsehead, however a single panel failed to include a lot of the interesting surrounding nebulosity and so I upped it to a 3 panel.

On top of that I decided to make it an HaLRGB image, I estimated roughly 11 hours per panel, 5 to Ha, 3 to L and 3 to RGB. In actuality it equated to 32.5 hours total!

This has been my most ambitious project yet, I spent over a month just acquiring the sufficient data, several days spent processing (9k x 4k images are slow on my computer)

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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula, Liam Murphy