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The Horsehead Nebula - IC 434, Simon
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The Horsehead Nebula - IC 434

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The Horsehead Nebula - IC 434

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I am pleased to be able to present to you my latest image. This is the best image of the Horsehead that I have taken so far, and I managed to image it on one clear night the other day, whilst the moon was at 77% illumination. It is a HaRGB. At full resolution it holds up quite well too.


I took 88 60s subs in RGB, and 50 15s subs in RGB, in order to help deal with Alnitak. I then used 65 subs in Ha, each at 4 minutes exposure time, and merged it altogether for the image. The integration time for this is thus 6 hours.


The other month the weather here was so bad that in 16 days, London only had 12 minutes of sunshine - I am 2 hours from London! Total cloud otherwise. At the moment we seem to be back into that kind of weather, but I am hopeful for Thursday. We will see. Thanks everyone!

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The Horsehead Nebula - IC 434, Simon