Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  NGC 1990  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  Part of the constellation Orion (Ori)  ·  The star Alnilam (εOri)  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star σOri
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Miniature Horsehead - 20200104 - Neewer 85 mm F2.5 - Ha, altazastro
Miniature Horsehead - 20200104 - Neewer 85 mm F2.5 - Ha
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Miniature Horsehead - 20200104 - Neewer 85 mm F2.5 - Ha

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The Horsehead Nebula is a very beautiful and suggestive target, but unfortunately I have very little visibility of it from my site: at most 10 minutes per night while it passes between two buildings.

I was imaging other subjects but I could not resist giving it a try.

Since I got only 450 seconds of exposure the result was quite noisy and hence to make it "minimally decent" I had to reduce noise by binning the already small image with StarTools.

Of course making it even smaller further reduced the evidence of defects.

Finally I resized it a little bit up with GIMP to make it at least "visible" :-)

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Miniature Horsehead - 20200104 - Neewer 85 mm F2.5 - Ha, altazastro