Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Horsehead nebula  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star σOri
The Horsehead Nebula, Nick Roach
The Horsehead Nebula
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The Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula, Nick Roach
The Horsehead Nebula
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The Horsehead Nebula

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This was one of my earliest successes with astrophotography, back in 2013. I was using a Celestron Astromaster EQ mount with my Canon 400D DSLR with a 75-300 mm zoom lens mounted on there. I had bought the Celestron motor to get the mount to track and I'd modified it to have finer speed control and to use an external battery to provide a stable power source. I was visiting my parents at their rural property for Christmas and I spent an hour collecting 30 second exposures, having to throw half of them away because of the poor tracking of my mount! I stacked them, and by processing in a very desperate sort of way I was just able to detect the outline of the horsehead nebula! I was overjoyed!

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The Horsehead Nebula, Nick Roach