Horsehead, Flame, Messier 78 (Anthony Quintile)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 46 eps Ori · 48 sig Ori · 50 zet Ori · Alnilam · Alnitak · B33 · Flame Nebula · Horsehead nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · M 78 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2068 · NGC 2071 · Orion · Orion B · PK204-13.1 · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · Sh2-277 · The star Alnilam (εOri) · The star Alnitak (ζOri) · The star σOri · VdB51 · VdB59 · VdB60

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Horsehead, Flame, Messier 78

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Horsehead, Flame, Messier 78

This had been the first image I shot with my Stellarvue SVX080T-3SV with the .74x FR, and I hadn't sorted the back focus on the FR.

I wanted to re-shoot this with back focus correct to do it justice.

Best 95%, so 4 hours 54 minutes total exposure.

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Description: I am still new to all of this so sometimes I need to dwell on what is wrong with an image before I figure out some of what is wrong. Still have a ton to learn!

Re did the color balance and applied some star refinement.

Curves in Photoshop are amazingly powerful, and I get just a little better every time I use them.

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Description: Color balanced down the red in the dust clouds.

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Description: I keep looking at this image and finding things I want to refine, and/or learning new tricks to fix the things I am seeing.

Corrected colors in M78, used Select Color Range in PS CC 20 to remove too much green and too much pink from throughout the image, corrected the star halo colors and sizes on a few bright stars, tweaked colors on some other features.

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Description: Dialed in stars on the lower part of the image, more background green removal.

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RA (center)	05h43m43s.63
RA (top/left)	05h34m25s.51
RA (top/right)	05h39m54s.55
RA (bottom/right)	05h53m01s.91
RA (bottom/left)	05h47m32s.33

Dec (center)	-01°18′21″.3
Dec (top/left)	-01°14′39″.1
Dec (top/right)	-03°25′39″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	-01°21′55″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+00°49′00″.4

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