Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)
Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula, banzai
Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula
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Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula

Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula, banzai
Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula
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Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula

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Doing the best I can from suburban gray sky (Bortle 8) location. Awkward time of year to try to catch Orion; it's low in the sky when night falls and quickly drops behind buildings and trees. Figured it's probably my last chance until it starts rising again in a few months.

Skyglow increased as Orion dropped so I had to pull back the exposure from 180s down to 150s to avoid saturating the camera. Normalized the histograms in post as if they were all the same exposure and stacked two nights' worth of shots.

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Alnitak, Flame Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula, banzai