The Horse Head Nebula region

About Image:

The Horse Head Nebula is one of the most famous of deep-sky objects. Located in the same interstellar cloud as the Great Orion Nebula, this intriguing puff of gas and dust silhouettes the bright curtain of energized hydrogen gas beyond. Were it not for this backdrop, the Horse Head would very likely be impossible to discern.

Equipment & Details:

Optics: Orion 8” inch 3.9f Newtonian astrograph

Camera: Canon 60D DSLR unmoddified

Mount: Celestron AVX

Guiding: Orion: starshoot autoguider 60mm guide scope

Dates: November 12, 13, 16, 17-2023

Location: Clarksdale Missouri

Exposures: Lights 200 x 4-minutes subs, ISO-1250 total 13 hours 20 minutes

Processing: Pixlnsight, Photoshop CS5