Yet Another Horsehead Nebula

[dave_galera]

Hi All,

After spending a week with Olly in Southern France I fell in love with his Baby Q, so for Christmas I decided to buy one and this image is the first with my new scope and is only the second deep space image I have taken, the first being the Orion Nebula while at Les Granges.

The image was a total of 6.6 hours in LRGB, L=43x5min, R=G=B=12x5min. I wanted a lot more RGB but the weather and the Moon beat me. The usual Darks and Flats have been applied. Alignment and stacking was done in AstroArt v5 and and all the stretching in FitsLiberator v3.

(and yes Olly I need to calm down the bright Alnitak, but actually I like it it like that lol)

I think it would benefit from some Ha but at the moment I don't have an Ha filter, but my birthday is in June, so here's hoping!!

Thanks for looking.

[Ags]

Wonderful. You've captured lots of dust..

[The_PSY3NTIST]

Beautiful

[JohnC64]

Beautiful image there Dave. Don't think I dare go to ollys - It would bankrupt me with the Kit that I would NEED to buy ;-)

[soggybongo]

simply stunning mate - well done

[dave_galera]

Thanks for comments much appreciated.

Beautiful image there Dave. Don't think I dare go to ollys - It would bankrupt me with the Kit that I would NEED to buy ;-)

Its worth it just for the unbelievable dark skies.

[Stars Fall]

That is so beautiful, well done mate.

Sent from my HD7 T9292 using Board Express

[Zul]

Fantastic!

[dave_galera]

Sorry guys, seem to have included two images, and can't seem to be able to edit it. Is there a problem in trying to edit a post the following day or in a different browser session?

[Daniel-K]

trying to convince me to let me go but she's like frigging super glue

[prokyon]

Great result, colours and details are very nice! I would not calm down Alnitak. It is very bright, matter of fact.

[dave_galera]

Great result, colours and details are very nice! I would not calm down Alnitak. It is very bright, matter of fact.

Thanks for comments, and yes I think I like it like this as well although maybe not strictly correct, but a bit of artists licence is allowed I think.

I have uploaded a new version as I thought the first was very noisy, so used NIK Software's Define to sort it out.

[Chris]

Beautiful and vivid pic, one question though, whats a baby Q??

[dave_galera]

Beautiful and vivid pic, one question though, whats a baby Q??

Thanks for comment Chris, a Baby-Q is a Takahashi FSQ-85EDX which I believe is a smaller version of the FSQ-106EDX hence the name 'Baby'.

[Chris]

Thanks for the info Dave, wow a Tak! I take it its a triplet Apo?, what an Xmas prezzie, congrats

[MartinB]

Fantastic 2nd image, the dust is looking great. An Ha filter is a wonderful thing and will give an extra dimension to the great data you have already

[calluml314]

That is amazing, well done.

[Virgoman]

Staggeringly beautiful, Dave.