Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  Flame Nebula  ·  IC 434  ·  IC 435  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  Orion B  ·  The star Alnitak (ζOri)  ·  The star σOri
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband, Oisín Dorgan
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband

The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband, Oisín Dorgan
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae in Duo Narrowband

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I finally got to give my Optolong L-Extreme filter first light after a couple of gloriously clear nights here in Cork. For the majority of both nights, I was capturing IC1396 but once that got a little close to the horizon, I decided I'd try to get a couple of bonus hours on IC434 while Orion was high in the sky. Having only recently started using a dedicated astronomy camera, I'm just thrilled with the rich Ha data I was able to capture in just 2 hours 25 minutes.

I'm still trying to find my way in Pixinsight and this processing took me 2 days of flicking back and forth through Warren Keller's 'Inside Pixinsight' to preprocess and process but I'm happy with it for now. I hope to capture some broadband data in the future to add to what I have here but all in good time.

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