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Orion, Horsehead Nebulae and Orion's Belt, Terry Hancock

Orion, Horsehead Nebulae and Orion's Belt

Orion, Horsehead Nebulae and Orion's Belt, Terry Hancock

Orion, Horsehead Nebulae and Orion's Belt

Description

A panoramic view Including the verey familiar three bright stars of Orion's belt Alnitak (to the left of the image), Alnilam and Mintaka. Part of the Orion Molecular Cloud and two of the most recognizable sky objects in the constellation Orion, these immense stellar nurseries are approximately 1500 light years distant "The Great Orion Nebula and The Horsehead Nebula".

This is data I captured in January, February and early March 2014 over 8 nights using a QHY11S Monochrome CCD/Takahashi E-80 F2.8 from Downunder Observatory in Fremont MI.

190 individual exposures make up this 5 panel mosaic for a Total Exposure time of 11 hours

Equipment

Camera: QHY11S monochrome CCD cooled to -20C

Optics: Takahashi Epsilon F2.8 ED-180 Astrograph

Mount: Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000)

Image Aquisition Maxim DL

Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack

Registration of images in Registar

Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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Orion, Horsehead Nebulae and Orion's Belt, Terry Hancock