I saw a nice version of this iconic object in the starry sky online that used a rarer image palette. I decided to try my own version with a remote telescope. Well, this turned out to be a bit of a stub version with a total exposure time of 'only' 10 hours, but I'm quite satisfied with this and especially since I was able to remove the disturbing stars.

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The purpose of the second CovalENS 1.6° x 1.9° panoramic space object on New Year's Day was to test what can be done in half an hour, but this stretched to 36 minutes. Yes, even with such a short exposure, the subject can be distinguished. I have to test a longer exposure during the winter. First image DeNoise processing. Second picture, original, unprocessed. Third without stars.

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I tested Vespera's "panorama" mode, it allows you to explore a much wider sky than Vespera's original field of view. The Vespera benefits from the ability to capture images at a higher resolution than the sensor resolution, up to 8.2 megapixels thanks to the mosaic mode. Normally, an image is 1920 x 1080 pixels, but for example this image of Horse's Head and Flame Fog is 1920 x 4091 pixels I cropped the first picture a bit, changed the tones a bit in the second one, the third picture is the original, from which you can see that the mosaic was not quite finished yet, the tree came t...

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Yes, this is a great and diverse area with all its different mists. I took advantage of a couple of hours of data filmed last spring and filmed the remaining three in December. More would have been worth it, but conditions have supported the hobby very badly lately.

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Night 25.- 26.01. the second target was the familiar Hevosenpää and '' next door '' Liekkisumu in Orion. NINA controlled the system flawlessly. Exposure for a total of 2 hours.

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With clear weather, I photographed this subject in short snippets from November to February. The picture is a mosaic composed of two parts. You can often see broadband images taken in natural colors from this subject, but I wanted to see what the subject would look like with narrowband filters. The colors in the image follow the Hubble palette, i.e. the red channel in the image contains S-II or sulfur, the green channel H-alpha or hydrogen and the blue channel O-III or oxygen. The second image also shows a starless version of the view.

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IC 434, or horsehead fog, photographed on the two evenings of early March. I was able to collect 20 10min exposures with an h-alpha filter.

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The filming of Orion continued. It was really clear now, no overcast clouds and no frost. Was able to take longer exposures than the last one, which can be seen in the final result. I also managed to process the image so that the bright M42 and the dim Horsehead Nebula appear beautifully in the same image. There is a large area of opaque mist around Orion's fog, which appears brown in the picture.

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Biscuit combines the same figure 6.2. and 9.2. the shots I photographed of Horsehead Mist. This gave the image more than two hours of shutter speed and significantly reduced noise. So there are 270 exposures in the picture for half a minute. Thanks to the short exposures, the stars remained dotted.

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From the balcony I photographed again the Orion mists, this time the Horse Head Mist and the Flame Mist, which are located next to the Alnitak star in the Orion Belt. Next to the red emission mist (IC 434) is a dark mist from which a horse’s head-shaped protrusion protrudes in front of the red mist (Barnard 33).

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We were watching a small group of stars when the weather finally allowed it. Personally, I also thought of taking advantage of the joy and decided to shoot horse head fog in a narrow lane. I collected light for 3h overall, but much of the pictures ended up in the trash. Next, I’ll look at why the OIII filter is annoying, however, I got used to somehow valid 8min oxygen for this image. Edit 7.2.2021: Added image with OIII 2min x20min collected and photometric color calibration performed

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In the end, the horse head mist and the surrounding emission mist remained rather poorly visible because the reflections produced major problems for image processing.

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Horse Nebula Barnard 33, IC434 and Flame Nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion. The distance of the horse's head fog is 1,500 light-years. The distance of the flame mist is 1200 light years. Filmed 9.12.2020 Sky Watcher 80/600 ED with telescope through Baader's UHC-S light pollution filter. Exposures 9 x 7 minutes, ISO1600 and stacked with DSS. Camera Canon Eos 60Da.

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A few hours old familiar item. Colors hope next season. Exposure in the heap for a total of 9 h with two tubes (Takahashi FSQ 106ED and Canon 200mm) and two cameras (SBIG STF-8300M and QHY 163M)

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Today I managed to photograph Orion's mists while taking a sauna. The weather was very clear, and when there was no snow on the ground, the sky is very dark and the mists stand out nicely in the pictures, even without filters. This way, the mists also appear in natural colors. The first delimitation shows the pink Orioin large gas fog M42 and M43 and above them the blue-violet reflection fog Sh-279 "running man". The second demarcation shows the red emission mist IC 434 and in front of it the dark mist Barnard 33 or Horse Head Nebula and on the left next to the Alnitak star the orange flam...

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From here it starts little by little.. Photo compiled from exposures of two nights from 13-14.2. The yellowness of the picture is due to the street lights, which turn off at midnight when cloud rafts arrive at exactly the same time. Seeing wasn't quite perfect either night, but I think you can create a "tolerable" track with this kind of equipment. Waiting for the weather.

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Last night, for a long time, I got to aim at the sky with a telescope as the clouds tempered to stay away. As a target, I chose an area of Horsehead Nebula that I hadn’t previously tried to describe with my telescope. The "fog" above the horizon and light pollution hampered the shooting of the low-lying subject a bit, and the exposure time should have been longer. However, the character of the horsehead stands out, which was my original goal. While assembling the equipment, I noticed several starbursts, the finest being a bright and green fireball. Edit: image updated to better quality.

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Orion is only visible for a couple of hours at my backyard location, and even then the light pollution in the city is just right on the road. As a result, I have done little to describe the handsome objects in that area. I had just maintained the tripod and wanted to try it out without a guide. I exposed the Horsehead Fog for an hour and although there was a lot of missing from the subject due to light pollution, the main thing was described handsomely.

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I left again to photograph the stars of Kallahti, because it was promised a completely clear night and I wanted to illuminate Orion's mists for much longer than last time. However, the wind was now quite strong. At first, I was able to get the tracking stand right on the beach, but I soon found that the wind was shaking the stand too much, making it impossible to get very dry. I decided to move the stand next to the climbing frame on the shore, in the shade of which the wind was clearly more moderate. Here the filming was successful. This time, I used only minute exposures to keep the star...

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As another subject, I described the environment of the Orion Belt, where there are several different mists. The stars of the Orion belt are from left to right Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. In front of the red emission fog IC 434 below the Alnitak star is a silhouette of a horseshoe-shaped dark fog Barnard 33 on the left side of the Alnitak. During this shooting, a thin cloud of dusk began to drift in the sky, causing a veil to appear around the brightest stars. The lens also had a bit of fog in 10-degree frost. I also re-processed this picture with the new Gimp and switched here to replace the...

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It is always a bit difficult to describe Orion in Oulu and especially in the forests of Puokkar. I took the injury back in my life here in Spain and have now photographed the Witch's Fog, the M78 and the Horse's Fog. Still holding Orion herself and maybe Rosette again. More information: http://www.astrobin.com/288069/

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I decided to stay at Metsähovi Radio Research Station for the night to test what kind of skies are really there. There is a surprising amount of light pollution in the east, but the southern sky is really good from the point of view of the metropolitan area. For this reason, I decided to go and photograph the horse's head with the help of a light pollution filter alone. The abundant cut-out forest to the south was allowed to keep the site visible many times longer than it would be visible from the backyard. A larger version can be found in the forum, or on astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com...

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I went back to the ice on the lake to shoot as the fog dissipated. In the direction of Orion, there are a lot of fine gas mists in a small area. The first delineation is Orion's large gas mist and "Running Man", the second is Horse's Head Nebula and Flame Nebula. The image is a combination of exposures of different lengths so that the center area of the M42 does not burn so badly.

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Another almost full moon described test image and with problems.

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After a long "dry" period, I was forced to get to shoot, even though the Moon made the conditions moderately challenging. So I stayed at the traditional sites to recall all the things I learned through trial and error. Well, always include a few blobs to fit. When shooting the M42, I tried a Hoyan Red Intensifier filter for Tamron 70-300 mm I bought from the Yankees. Focus was a bit wrong. In the moonlit sky, the difference to images without a filter in the past was by no means shocking. The experiment will continue as long as you can fire into the dark sky. Canon 7D MKii camera.

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I photographed these objects already at the turn of the year. The raw material was of such poor quality (mainly due to clouds and poor transparency) that I was not inspired to start the image processing project earlier. The quality is at least partly compensated by the number of pictures, i.e. the picture contains about 7h, 10 min partial exposures. The image has been cropped briskly from the edges, as well as smoothed and patted in the absence of proper flat images. However, the end result turned out better than I had thought.

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In addition to photographing the northern lights , I had decided to do a test run of my H-alpha filter. Indeed, the conditions were so bad that narrowband imaging was the most sensible form of imaging. On the other hand, even it didn’t save me from the gradients I had to remove in image processing. For a very long time I didn’t shine this time, but the fogs of Orion still came out moderately. During the shooting of the series, the northern lights were visible in some places even quite bright in the northern sky, but the only camera that was included was busy.

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I already covered this in the last half of the year, but now I only got the picture ready.

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The last guy of the year. The nearby Moon forced me to describe the narrowband. Photos: main image

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I photographed Orion's star pattern around the belt for about 40 minutes with exposures of different lengths. And look, that's where some details and colors started to stand out. Annoying when I couldn’t afford to continue the session with another mokoma, for example. Well, during the next ‘dark moon’, that is, next year, we have to get back to it. While the star pattern was pretty low and the Christmas lights in the same direction, I found a pretty nice end result in my opinion.

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Familiar and much-photographed objects around the star Alnitak.

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I decided to try it myself by modifying the Canon 600d horseshoe, in the morning after four, Orion's star pattern will appear in my backyard behind the trees in a low south-west direction, after all, grabbing something even though the Horseshoe is a dim object.

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At the end of the session, this subject still had to be tested with a modified camera for one exposure. After that went the battery and the object is not yet in an ideal location for the backyard anyway. But for one exposure, I’m putting this in the sky now.

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A little color also to the previous Ha version of Horsehead Fog. The image is a combination of HaRGB, where the combined Ha + R acts as luminance. RGB channels were exposed for a total of more than 2 hours, which may not be enough. The colors remained a bit leady. Must continue next season. Exposure stacked for a total of over 7 h. Learn more on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/67018317@N07/16679167289/in/photostream

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Some of Barnard's loops fit nicely in the same field as Liekkisumu and Hevosenpääsum. Unfortunately, the sky in Tähtikallio was not completely dark either, but the light pollution gradient hampered the image processing a bit. On the other hand, in Järvenpää, there would have been no hope of getting the same level of view of the cell.

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For a long time I got to shoot and I had been planning to shoot this subject for a long time. At the same time, Nebuolisty 3 was driven in with this equipment. While compiling the image, I stated that it would be time to try out PixInsight and I got a trial license for it. Thanks to Samuli Vuorinen's excellent PixInsight guide, I got the following sample.

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Here is a wider view in the direction of Orion. This should be tried again in a snow-free time, because even though the weather seemed clear, and the light pollution in that direction isn't too bad either, the bright snow reflects even a little scattered light into the sky and erases the lower mists from the picture.

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Slightly more exposure to Horsehead Fog. Ha for 5 h, which should be enough for this item. The extra exposure clearly improved the previous 2-hour shot, although the difference in small image size is not very easy to notice. Colors next ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/67018317@N07/16519354921/in/photostream/lightbox/

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Bright for a long time, albeit unfortunately for a short time. I started filming a slightly larger version of Hevosenpää from the fog. The previous one was photographed with a 600mm tube and this with a 300mm lens. Exposure stack for 2 hours so far (6x20min Ha) Sometimes you have to try to combine higher and lower resolution images and see what happens. Lower image previously described 600mm

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After a three-month cloudy season, I finally got to photograph Kirkakummi's Komakallio again. I photographed another subject in the early evening, but after Orion rose higher, I started filming the Horsehead Fog. However, I only had time to shoot for a moment, and the project needs to be continued again. I didn’t get enough collected data yet to get a sensible color image of this, but I’ll divide at least this stack of two sub-exposures at the wavelength of hydrogen alpha.

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Wider view of Orion's gas mists. In the first picture, a picture taken with a 200mm lens, with some bad edges cut off. Second image: delimited horse head mist (IC 434) and Flame mist (NGC 2024). Third image: bounded by Orion's large gas mist (M42 and M43) and Running man mist (NGC 1977).

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The first picture of Hevosenpää with new equipment. Mäihä was covered by the reflection fog NGC 1990. The subject was still relatively low and a couple of tree tops had to be avoided when photographing. More information: http://www.astrobin.com/132369/

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I made a quick test exposure of this subject only twenty degrees directly across the light sea of the city of Tampere. And lest it would have been too easy, in addition, a strong wind rattled the pipe. This environment of the Alnitak star in Orion's belt is a real heavenly candy store with numerous different items that you can see in the meaningful picture. Well may start even alnitak and after the flame mist and Horsehead Nebula through other smaller NGC and the IC of interest. I treated the image differently than usual, highlighting red with H-alpha data. Images: main image , annotations...

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For about a year, I have photographed all kinds of objects in the sky with a superzoom camera alone, from a moon to a supernova, and always a stone's throw from the center of Helsinki. From the beginning, one of my goals, of course, has been to photograph horse head fog on the same principle, and this mid-winter snowless weather provided a good opportunity for that. The picture was taken directly in the direction of the Mediterranean, i.e. the darkest area of the sky at my point of observation. Still, I couldn’t take very long partial exposures without the background becoming completely wh...

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There was fifteen degrees of frost and a light gust of wind. I took 20 2-minute exposures and 20 4-minute exposures. Due to wind-induced vibration, a dozen images had to be removed before stacking. Horsehead Nebula is a fun object to photograph, I tried this for the first time. Sometimes you have to get better acquainted with the adjacent Flame Nebula.

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Now that you can’t describe new items, you have to deal with older production. Here is a picture of the best area of the constellation Orion from the beginning of December.

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After photographing the comet, I turned the camera to Orion. The horse head fog was nicely visible in the pictures. Also NGC 2024 i.e. Flame nebula, M78 galaxy and Barnards loop (or part of it) can be found in the image area. In the first picture, a spruce larva popped up in the lower right corner, in the other pictures I cut it out.

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Horsehead and Flame Nebula (IC434, Barnard 33 & NGC 2024) in Balmer-Alpha Glow

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IC 434 and NGC 2024 (Flame Nebula) are found next to the star Alnitak in Orion's belt. In addition, the picture shows the famous Hevosenpää nebula as a dark nebula against the IC 434 nebula, where I tried the H-beta narrowband filter that had been free until now in the filter wheel. A little less than 3 hours of integration, which could have been longer, so I have to come back here again with time. Image .

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This time, the same image field can hold a wide variety of items. In front of the emission mist IC 434 is a dark mist B33, i.e. a horse head mist. In the same cluster there is also a reflection fog NGC 2023 and a flame fog NGC 2024. The bright star in the picture is Orion's star Alnitak. More information about the image can be found on Astrobin .

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For a long time, eastern Finland was able to enjoy a clear and moonless night. To ensure the rare opportunity offered by the weather and some sort of end result, I headed for the shooting equipment towards the horse head fog IC434. The fog is easy to find and the "horse's head" can be seen even with a small total exposure time. The image also contained nebulae NGC 2024, NGC 2023, and IC 432. Stacked for 2.5 h with 5 min exposures.

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I photographed this horseshoe-shaped dark fog from Komakallio, Kirkkonummi's Comet observation site.

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