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Equipment and other photo info:
Picture taken on November 2nd, 2008.
Location: Petrova gora, Croatia, Europe
SkyWatcher ED80 @ f/6, Canon EOS 300D 28x240sec @ ISO800
Guiding with Maksutov 90/1250 + QHY5 guiding camera (PHD Guiding)
Mount: EQ6 Vis upgreded to EQ6 SynScan

hAlpha data by Boris Stromar
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