Horsehead and Flame Nebula
A popular, yet challenging image to capture and process.
Equipment:
Refractor, 71 mm aperture, 350 mm focal length
QSI683 CCD (Kodak KAF8300 sensor)
QSI integrated Filter Wheel (1.25” Baader filters)
QSI integrated off-axis guider with Lodestar CCD
Paramount MX, Berlebach tripod
Software: (Windows 7)
Sequence Generator Pro, ASCOM drivers
PHD2 autoguider software
PixInsight (Mac OSX)
Exposure: (LRGBHα)
L bin 1; 35 × 300 seconds, 15 × 30 seconds
RGB bin 2; 130 × 300 seconds each
Hα bin 1; 15 × 1200 seconds
The first edition has a facer image of this nebula pair, a true first-light experience of this famous part of the Orion nebula complex. At the time of image capture I was using a portable setup and the acquisition ...
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