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The Horsehead Nebula, Daoud
The Horsehead Nebula
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The Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula, Daoud
The Horsehead Nebula
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The Horsehead Nebula

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I have imaged this nebula previously with the Orion nebula with my 300mm prime. This is my first opportunity imaging at in detail. Since it was too large to image in 1 frame using the 800mm 8 inch quattro, I decided it was a good opportunity to play with mosaics. This image is the result of a 2 panel mosaic shot in the same night.

This is a Bicolor HOO image processed in pixinsight with final touchups in Lightroom. Had a lot of trouble with horizontal banding which made processing this a lot harder than it needed to be. The canon banding removal script helped, but added some gradients I couldnt remove and just had to suppress in processing. I may need to bump my ISO to 400 next time to see if the issue goes away.

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The Horsehead Nebula, Daoud