BEAUTY NEAR THE BELT "Sky & Telescope April 2018" (Terry Hancock)

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BEAUTY NEAR THE BELT "Sky & Telescope April 2018"

At the request of S&T I reprocessed my earlier color image as a monotone image combining color (converted to Grayscale) with H-Alpha data, Sky and Telescope April 2018 pages 72 and 73.

Terry Hancock & Walter Holloway

Alnitak (below center), the easternmost star in Orion’s

Belt, anchors a rich region of nebulosity that features the

broad glow of IC 434, with the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard

33) silhouetted against it, and the Flame Nebula

(NGC 2024) at bottom center. North is toward left.

DETAILS: Takahashi FSQ-130ED astrograph and QHY367C

CCD camera with hydrogen-alpha and LRGB fi lters (rendered

in monochrome). Total exposure: 6.9 hours.

Image Details

Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com PurdyMesa, Colorado

Date: 13th, 14th October 2017

RGB 43 x 4 min,

H Alpha 5nm 24 x 10 min

Camera: QHY367C

Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.

Optics: The Walter Holloway Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

Filters by Chroma

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5

Registered, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6

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