Horsehead and Flame nebula

Posted by HrAstro

Horsehead and Flame nebula

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Equipment and other photo info:
Celestron C10-N, Canon 300d, 12x420sec @ ISO800
Manually guided with Maksutov 90/1250 + Microguide EP 12.5mm
Mount: EQ6 Vis
Processing software: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight 1.0, Photoshop CS2

Object info:
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in bright nebula IC 434) is a dark nebula in the Orion constellation. The nebula is located just below Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. Left bottom nebula is the Flame nebula

More information about this object at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula

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