IC 4592 the Blue Horsehead Nebula (RonAdams)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: IC 4592 · The star Graffias (β1Sco) · The star β2Sco · The star νSco · The star ω1Sco · The star ω2Sco

IC 4592 the Blue Horsehead Nebula, RonAdams

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IC 4592 the Blue Horsehead Nebula

This is one of the most difficult objects that I've tried to image. This object unfortunately is located in my heaviest light pollution caused by a Federal Prison and a Plywood Plant. I've processed and reprocessed this image on and off for almost a month. There was not that much data to work with.

Very little stretching can be done due to the light gradients. The image tended to blow out with just minimal stretching and it also incorporated more noise into the image. In fact most of my processing effort was spent trying to negate the noise without degrading the signal data in the object.

No matter what I did I could not produce a whispy, cloud like reflection nebulosity. All I could get was a sort of shadow (for lack of a better description) outline of light and color shaped like the object. I debated whether or not to post my image but decided that since I did image this object that this would be a base image that I could compare to any future images that I take of this object. If I can ever find a remote location with access to a relatively dark sky I think I could probably get an acceptable image. So with all of that said please enjoy my first image of IC 4592.

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