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Horsehead and Flame Region, Richard S. Wright Jr.
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Horsehead and Flame Region

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Horsehead and Flame Region, Richard S. Wright Jr.
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Horsehead and Flame Region

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It's not just gas...

I had a weeks vacation scheduled for the Winter Star Party, but it was canceled so I went to my own dark sky site. This was first light with my new AP Stowaway, and I shot with both a Canon Ra and the QHY 128c. The QHY won that battle, this is just 2.2 hours of 3 minute exposures. The area from the horsehead and up is glowing hydrogen gas, but there's quite a bit of dust below that scatters reddish light as well. Almost a red/mud brown. Of course, the little pockets of blue reflection nebula really punctuate the region too!

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Horsehead and Flame Region, Richard S. Wright Jr.