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The Horsehead and Flame Nebula The Horsehead and Flame…

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula

The Horsehead and Flame Nebula (IC434)

Located on the easternmost part of Orion's belt, these nebula lie approx 1375 light-years from earth and are connected (in our view) by the star Altinak.

At the center of the Flame Nebula is a cluster of newly formed stars, 86% of which have circumstellar disks.

This image was captured over several nights earlier this month. 3 nights (14h 29m) of data were captured without a filter and one night I captured Hydrogen Alpha (Ha) emissions using the Optolong L-Ultimate filter.

I combined the RGB data with the Ha data to bring out greater detail in the Ha regions.

Imaged from my Bortle 7 backyard.

Scope: Askar FRA300
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC
Mount: iOptron CEM70EC
Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate (78 x 180s - 3h 54m) / No Filter (869 x 60s - 14h 29m)

All post processing done in PixInsight
\- spfc, mgc, spcc, btx, stx, ghs, stf stretch, nxt, ct, ht, pixelmath, convolution, unsharp mask, imageblend
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