IC424: Closing In On the Horsehead Nebula (Sky Story)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: B33 · Flame Nebula · HD37699 · HD37805 · HD37903 · Horsehead nebula · IC 434 · LBN 953 · LBN 954 · NGC 2023 · Orion B · Sh2-277

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IC424: Closing In On the Horsehead Nebula

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IC424: Closing In On the Horsehead Nebula

I think the Horsehead Nebula was the first nebula that I became truly enamored with as a child. Late last winter, I decided to put a higher focal length on it (1240 FL) but the Horsehead was going to slip behind the horizon in barely an hour, so I shot in luminance only to capture more information in the limited time and composited that information with an old image of the Horsehead I had shot with another telescope at 447 FL. The two layers did not line up well enough to properly center the Horsehead so I filled in the right 16th of the background and lower right eighth with CGI to allow for a better centering of the subject. The result was this. I'm happy with the outcome, though I'd like to spend a full night or two on the Horsehead sometime at a good 2000 FL. Alas, it'll have to wait till next autumn when Orion is visible by night again.

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RA (center)	05h41m13s.385
RA (top/left)	05h40m27s.433
RA (top/right)	05h40m10s.781
RA (bottom/right)	05h41m59s.224
RA (bottom/left)	05h42m15s.977

Dec (center)	-02°26′11″.26
Dec (top/left)	-02°10′18″.41
Dec (top/right)	-02°37′57″.60
Dec (bottom/right)	-02°42′01″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	-02°14′22″.89

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