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Horse Head / Flame - *AAPOD 18 May 2018*, Rodney Watters
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Horse Head / Flame - *AAPOD 18 May 2018*

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Horse Head / Flame - *AAPOD 18 May 2018*, Rodney Watters
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Horse Head / Flame - *AAPOD 18 May 2018*

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The Horse Head nebula (Barnard 33) and the Flame Nebula (NGC2024) are presented here in a modified SHO (Hubble) palette. Image was processed in Pixinsight 1.8.5 with some minor tweaking on Photoshop CS6.

** Image selected for Amateur Astronomy Picture of the Day, 18 May 2018 **

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Description: Prior to printing this image I decided to give it a bit more 'pop' so applied some selective colour saturation enhancements in Photoshop. Decided that it was worth posting the update.

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Horse Head / Flame - *AAPOD 18 May 2018*, Rodney Watters