Barnard 33 - 1 February 2022

[MarsG76]

Hi All,

Sharing my image of one of the most popular object for astroimagers... The Horsehead Nebula/Barnard 33 with Alnitak and the Flame Nebula.

As I continue to have terrible sky conditions for astroimaging, I'm struggling to complete any images before the imaged object season is finished. Seems like my nights are perpetually cloud covered.
I'm keeping an eye on the sky, and when I spot some clarity, I immediately open the observatory and start to gather photons.

I captured this image by noticing that there was a clear window of opportunity and managed to have a couple of hours of clarity before clouds returned.

I'd like to capture at-least another hours worth of exposure time through this filter to smooth out some of the noise but also would like to capture other color channels and create a color photo... but with the weather being against me, I'm running out of time.

This images total exposure time was 1 hour and 40 minutes, consisting of 10 x 600 second 7nm narrowband H-Alpha subs.

Taken through a 80mm Refractor @ f6.25, on a hypertuned CGEM mount with QHY268M camera.

 

Clear Skies.

 

[Sunshine]

Wonderfully detailed and presented! wow

[Naglerman]

Stunning image and presentation!  Love it! 

[MarsG76]

I spent a few hours capturing RGB data of it last night... so hopefully It'll turn out OK when I use that data to colour it....

 

[Roy Foreman]

Very nice image well done. I share your pain regarding cloud cover. Think I've had just two really clear nights in four months. No imaging session ever gets finished. We can only hope that one day the weather will improve.

[MarsG76]

7 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

Very nice image well done. I share your pain regarding cloud cover. Think I've had just two really clear nights in four months. No imaging session ever gets finished. We can only hope that one day the weather will improve.

here's to less clouds, much less clouds.... *holding a drink*

[SimonHutch]

Wow, lovely detail!