Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion (Michele Vonci)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: Flame Nebula · IC 434 · IC 435 · NGC 2023 · Orion B

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion, Michele Vonci

Powered byPixInsight

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

Powered byPixInsight

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

As weird as it may sound this is my first picture ever of the Horsehead Nebula! I knew of its existence since when I first approached amateur astronomy 25 years ago and finally, I've got a picture of it!
It's so iconic that it doesn't need much of an introduction ... it's a dark nebula made of interstellar material that blocks the light of the bright emission Nebula IC434 in the background, resulting in its peculiar shape.
This is just about an hour of data, the only time I can have between the moment Orion is far enough from a led streetlight and when it disappears behind a neighbouring house! A big "thank you" to Topaz Denoise for the smooth appearance of the picture, probably compensated by some small unreal artefact, but with just 50 minutes of data, I didn't have much choice!

Original
B
Final
C
D

B

Title: Black and white version

Uploaded: ...

C

Description: A different processing workflow, separating the stars from the nebula with no image cropping.

Uploaded: ...

Suburban Astrophotography
Imagers of Italy
Fast Newtonians
Cloudy Nights
UK Astro-Imaging

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5365275
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

C

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

Quick and dirty Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) in Orion

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Revisions

B

C

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

Delete this revision?

Delete this revision?

Delete this revision?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information