Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Cory Schmitz
Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Cory Schmitz

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Description

Because this is what we do on New Year's. Even with 78 exposures, the noise came through because the night was so warm at our home in Johannesburg, South Africa. It took quite a bit of noise reduction work to get this looking decent.

Image details:

Data acquired on 2014-01-01

78x 3minutes, 3.9 hours total exposure time

ISO400

Calibrated with dark, flat, and bias frames

Equipment used:

Orion 8" Astrograph

Baader MPCC coma corrector

Canon t2i / 550D DSLR (Baader IR modded)

Celestron CGEM DX mount

Orion SSAG + 50mm finder/guider

Software:

Data acquired with BackyardEOS

Guiding with PhD

Calibration, integration, and post-processing with PixInsight

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Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Cory Schmitz