Cosmic Steed: Horsehead Nebula, NGC2023 & IC435

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

Cosmic Steed: Horsehead Nebula, NGC2023 & IC435, Bill Long - Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Cosmic Steed: Horsehead Nebula, NGC2023 & IC435

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Cosmic Steed: Horsehead Nebula, NGC2023 & IC435

Link: https://darkmattersastro.com/product/horsehead-nebula-haoiiirgb/

Decided to try out RGB plus continuum subtracted HA and OIII on this and it turned out much better than I had hoped. The HA and OIII definitely added a lot of texture and substance to the field, and the two reflection nebulas really popped when adding in that OIII data. I did not need to apply any changes to the saturation of the image at all, as no adjustments to that were needed. I tuned my processing machine (MacBook Pro) to use the AdobeRGB 1998 settings in PixInsight prior to doing any processing of this image at all, as the whole wide vs non-wide gamut discussion left me wanting to see what difference it may make versus other images I have processed, which were using the sRGB profile in PI the entire time.

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