Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  48 Ori  ·  50 Ori)  ·  Flame Nebula  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  Orion B  ·  The star Alnitak (ζ Ori  ·  The star σ Ori
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Horsehead and Flame, niteman1946
Horsehead and Flame
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Horsehead and Flame

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Horsehead and Flame, niteman1946
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Horsehead and Flame

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IC434 and NGC2024 taken at Lighthouse Observatory, Burleson Texas. Using TMB 80SS refractor at F6.3. Employed 212 subs at ISO1600 and 2 1/2 minutes each (8.83 hr) on 12/27 (88), 1/12 (52) and 1/13 (72) using PixInsight processing software.

This was my first target with dithering, and it seems to have worked well.

This is about a 50% crop and 90deg ccw rotation from the original image. North is to the left.

Even with the heavy crop this still yields somewhat distorted stars in the upper area.

I'm searching for a suitable FR/FF for this scope to elimate this coma.

I really like the results from this effort.

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Horsehead and Flame, niteman1946