The Horsehead and Flame

[Laurin Dave]

Old favourites the Horsehead (Barnard 33/ IC434) and Flame Nebula (NGC2024)  in Orion... also included are Alnitak (left side of the Belt) and reflection nebula NGC2023, IC431, IC432 and IC435.  7hours of  Luminance through Esprit100QHY600M and 7 hours RGB through GT71ASI2600mc captured on 14/15 and 18/19 November plus 5 hours Ha through GT71ASI1600mm captured in 2021. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

Thanks for looking

Dave

[tooth_dr]

Wonderful image and a nicely different FOV. 

[Adreneline]

Amazing Dave. Great stars!

I love these bits:

Stunning detail - so much better than the usual big blue blob - like what I have achieved  

Adrian

[Roy Foreman]

Love the billowy brown clouds of dust against the red reflection nebula. Great capture.

[Pld]

What a terrific image,  very well done.

[simmo39]

V nice!

[tomato]

Wonderful image Dave, I really like the surrounding dust and the colour of the Flame Nebula.👍

[Laurin Dave]

21 hours ago, tooth_dr said:

Wonderful image and a nicely different FOV. 

 

20 hours ago, Adreneline said:

Amazing Dave. Great stars!

I love these bits:

Stunning detail - so much better than the usual big blue blob - like what I have achieved  

Adrian

 

18 hours ago, Roy Foreman said:

Love the billowy brown clouds of dust against the red reflection nebula. Great capture.

 

18 hours ago, Pld said:

What a terrific image,  very well done.

 

12 hours ago, simmo39 said:

V nice!

 

10 hours ago, tomato said:

Wonderful image Dave, I really like the surrounding dust and the colour of the Flame Nebula.👍

Thank you all much appreciated

Dave

[maw lod qan]

With my meager abilities, I'll say its awesome!

[Laurin Dave]

Whilst the Esprit100 and GT71 were busy capturing the wide field view the Esprit150ASI294 was focussed on the Horsehead and Flame...  here's the result of that data combined with data from 2019 and 2021 taken through the Esprit150 with an SX46... in total it adds up to 5 hrs per channel RGB plus 14 hours luminance over the Horsehead and rather less at the edges as this is a mosaic. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop..  with BXT and SXT used to control the stars.  No Ha in this one.

Thanks again for looking

Dave

[ollypenrice]

I love the first one, especially in its rendition of the dust (and I agree with  tooth_dr about the refreshingly different framing. In the second one I feel the colour has gone out of kilter, especially the Flame which has lost its unusual orange-yellow.

Olly

[Laurin Dave]

1 hour ago, ollypenrice said:

I love the first one, especially in its rendition of the dust (and I agree with  tooth_dr about the refreshingly different framing. In the second one I feel the colour has gone out of kilter, especially the Flame which has lost its unusual orange-yellow.

Olly

Thanks Olly...   on reflection you're right   ... here it is with I believe better colour (blended in from the wide field image).   interestingly the wide field colour was from a colour camera (ASI2600mc) rather than the mono I did through the E150..  I wonder if the lack of colour in the Flame is due to the large spectral gap between my red and green filters?

Dave