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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Aleix Roig
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://flic.kr/p/2kP5926
The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Aleix Roig
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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://flic.kr/p/2kP5926

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The Horsehead Nebula, IC434, and the Flame Nebula NGC2024, are two amazing targets of the winter sky (northern hemisphere). Due to the high brightness of Alnitak it's quite difficult to get some decent results in this field. This was one of the reasons that made me escape from that bright star in my past pictures of this region.

The Orion constellation is full of amazing nebulae. Most of them are part of the same dusty cloud, mainly composed of ionized hydrogen that emits really strong in the H alpha spectral line. The use of narrow band filters allows us to detect all these emissions. This image shows the area that surrounds the Horsehead Nebula full of molecular clouds from the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

This image is the "second light" of my new ASI294MM-Pro. I have chosen this target, including Alnitak, due to the difficulty of capturing this bright star in terms of reflections and microlensing effects.



Image details:



L: 37x120"

RGB: (R: 14, G:31, B:30) x120"

Ha: 74x300"

All images at Gain 120 and Bin2



50 darks, 50 bias, 50 flats



Total exposure: 9h26'



Equipment:



FSQ85

Mesu 200

ASI294MM-Pro + ZWO OAG with ASI174MC + ZWO EFW 8 pos



Software:



SGP, PHD2, APP, Pixinsight.



Prades - Catalonia, Spain. March 2021.

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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae, Aleix Roig

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