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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha, altazastro
IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha
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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha

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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha, altazastro
IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha
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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha

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As I wrote multiple times, from my balcony at home I can image the Horsead just for 12-15 minutes per night, hence so far I never put together an at least "decent" integration of this beautiful and well known subject.
This time I added the light integration of January 5 2022 to the light collected on February 25-26-27-28 2022 to obtain slightly more than one hour total integrated time and my best image of the Horsehead so far.
I do not know if I am going to collect more light frames this year, but I will surely do so next year and so improve the quality of the final result with (a long) time.

P.S.
Because of framing issues and also because of change in the framed field inherent to ALTAZ imaging ("fanned stack" effect), I had to sacrifice the Flame Nebula in the final image.

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IC434 - Horsehead Nebula - TS72F6 - Ha, altazastro

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