IC 4592(Blue Horsehead) from Cherry Springs State Park (gmadkat)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Scorpius (Sco) · Contains: 12.23 · 14 Sco) · 14 nu. Sco · 15.53 · 40 Harmonia · 713 Luscinia · 8 Sco A) · 8 Sco B · 8 bet01 Sco · 8 bet02 Sco · Akrab (β1 Sco · B40 · B41 · Graffias · HD143437 · HD143616 · HD143646 · HD143764 · HD143784 · HD143842 · HD143899 · HD143955 · HD143956 · HD144092 · HD144093 · HD144134 · HD144216 · HD144252 · HD144273 · HD144365 · And 85 more.

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IC 4592(Blue Horsehead) from Cherry Springs State Park

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IC 4592(Blue Horsehead) from Cherry Springs State Park

This is the IC 4592 or the Blue Horsehead Nebula in Scorpio, a reflection nebula. I think it looks like an alligator too, but that is subjective! It is pretty low relatively so was very happy we managed to get this much detail!

This was acquired at Cherry Springs State Park this week by my friend and collaborator K*F]Michael Kelly and is about 5 hours of LRGB from the really cool portable setup. Thank you so much, Mike!

Thank you to my friend and mentor Mike at throughlightandtime.com for his guidance and help processing the image in Pixinsight and Photoshop, and his skill and mastery in bringing out the best of the data!

Scope: Radian Raptor 275mm 61mm
Camera: ASI2600mm pro
Heq5 Rowan mod
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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	5865675
PixInsight job	8X7ELR83XZWCN6LEJGX2TD9F8L5YUP9L
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	16h12m04s.76
RA (top/left)	15h59m47s.60
RA (top/right)	16h15m16s.70
RA (bottom/right)	16h24m26s.17
RA (bottom/left)	16h09m00s.37

Dec (center)	-19°25′47″.2
Dec (top/left)	-18°59′59″.9
Dec (top/right)	-22°16′20″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	-19°48′38″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	-16°35′15″.2

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