Horsehead nebula region

[rodrigol]

This is my first image of 2024. The weather has been awful during the last 3 months and other reasons have contributed to not being able to roll the roof off the observatory. However, last night the wind gave up a bit and I decided to risk it. I went straight for the centre of the dusty Horsehead region (to NGC 2023) using NINA and my 'old' Altair SW80 doublet and ASI071MC Pro mounted on my CGEM-DX, which still delivers good tracking. I took 30 x 300s of data. Data was processed with PI + RC Astro AI tools.

 

[Paul M]

That's a very pleasing image. Lots to see and not cooked to a frazzle 

Nice to see Alnilam included. It adds perspective and scale.

[rodrigol]

20 minutes ago, Paul M said:

That's a very pleasing image. Lots to see and not cooked to a frazzle 

Nice to see Alnilam included. It adds perspective and scale.

Thanks for the comment, Paul. 😊

[Roy Foreman]

Nice image. Good to see the flame nebula on its true colours, that is yellow/orange rather than red as depicted in so many images using lpr filters that filter the out yellow !