Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Eridanus (Eri)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
The Witch's Head Nebula, Chris Levitan
The Witch's Head Nebula
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The Witch's Head Nebula

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The season of the Witch finally arrived last night. This one has completely eluded me and now I know why and have sooo much respect for the ones that have captured it so well.... It almost takes Witchcraft itself to capture and process..;-) Very very challenging and rewarding in the end.

This one was with the Tandem rig again autoguided. A late 70's Nikkor 180mm f2.8 ED lens on the modded T5i. 25-600 second lights @ ISO 800. 25 darks 25 flats and 25 dark flats. Stack stacked and initially edited in DSS using median method and mosaic final output into a Tiff. Lastly a super fine edit in Adobe camera RAW that I should write a book on. Wow that was tough.

Here's the final results of the elusive Witchy woman herself for you. Let me know if it's Magic to your eyes or not.

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The Witch's Head Nebula, Chris Levitan