Christmas Eve Horsehead - Ha

[TakMan]

Lucky enough to be in a position to grab a few hours imaging on the night of the 24th, just the usual problem with the moon in attendance!

From my suburban, light polluted Bortle 5 back garden.

FSQ106ED with FR (385mm @ f/3.6) and the rather 'out of fashion', old CCD based STF8300m and Baader 7nm filter - hence the halo, or two, or three!

Preprocessed (darks, flats and dark flats) and stacked in APP and then into Ps CC2017

Ha 14x 900sec, so three and a half hours worth.  Lost one due to clouds rolling in. Usually find if I can get around 25 subs the visible noise rapidly falls away, so looking forward to another clear night soon to add to this... but pleased so far.

Full size jpeg attached... 'warts and all'...

Does anyone else think that huge cloud of hydrogen rising above the HH looks rather like a vulture..?

 

Damian

Edited December 28, 2020 by TakMan

[Sunshine]

Wonderful image!

[Moonshed]

Great image, love how the contrast makes all the features look so sharp, the Horsehead stands out so clearly.