Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  B33  ·  Flame Nebula  ·  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 434  ·  Orion B  ·  Sh2-277
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Horsehead Nebula --  Ha-RGB Closeup, Michael Sherick
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Horsehead Nebula -- Ha-RGB Closeup

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Revision 1-20-23:   Since I had pushed the data pretty hard, this result was not as nice as I would have liked for zooming in on detail...  Hence, I reduced the image size to make it visually a bit more acceptable.  Time to totally reprocess the data...

Imaged from the Sagrada Observatory, Las Cruces, NM.   Imaged data from 12-2021
Telescope:  24" f8 RC   CCD Camera:  FLI-PL-09000  Gen II Filters, 3nm Ha Filter.

This image of ic434 "The Horsehead Nebula" is a reprocess from 2021 image data.  My processing goal for this image was to bring out a bit more of the faint detail.  Contrast is somewhat on the high side, but a secondary intent of the overall image was to enhance the dense gas cloud areas.   Anyway...   It was fun to process a close up of this popular object in Ha-RGB.  The Ha tends to give a rather pink tone to the image, which I hope you don't mind.

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Horsehead Nebula --  Ha-RGB Closeup, Michael Sherick