B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard! (Davide Mascoli)

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

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!, Davide Mascoli

Powered byPixInsight

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

Link: https://davidemascoliastrophoto.wordpress.com/gallery/

Powered byPixInsight

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

Link: https://davidemascoliastrophoto.wordpress.com/gallery/

Here just a first attempt in order to obtain a detail enriched of the B33 Horsehead nebula from my home backyard (Bortle scale class 5)!

It is not a long focal length shoot of B33, but a magnification I derived from a cropped portion during the post-processing phase of the photo of the main Flame-Horsehead complex surrounding Alnitak.
In black and white several details have been a bit emphasized and it gave me a huge emotion!

It is a region of the sky really increadible as It appears to us as observers, and of course its resolution depends strictly on both sky-condition and our own setup!

Here some technical details for the sake of completeness:
- main optic: PrimaluceLab refractor Airy ED100 @f/6.
- main camera used QHY294c (gain 1087, offset 40, no cooler activated, the temperature of
the sensor was around 16 °C)
- filter: Optolong L-enhance dual-band 2"
- guide camera: QHY5L-II with a 9x50 finderscope self adapted as a guide-scope!
- mount: Celestron AVX

Stacking detail:
- 18x300s light frames (+ darks and flats)

In the post-processing phase I simply tried to crop the interested region and then I proceeded to work on it in a black and white modality in PS (with also luminosity synthetic layers ad hoc created from the RGB single channels and the use of the PS camera-raw plug-in)!

It has been fantastic to obtain so much detail in the cropped region using the black and white technique.

Next improvements: I need to increase the total integration time and I have to activate the cooler of my OSC camera to reduce as much as possible the noise too!

Any comment or suggestion are much appreciated!

Narrowband imaging
Imagers of Italy

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5360359
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

B33 horsehead nebula - first detail in black and white from my backyard!

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information