Horsehead Nebula

My best capture so far of the nebulous region around Alnitak, containing the famous shape of the the horsehead. This is 4.5 hours of integration time on a colour camera in 5 minute sub-frames.

Burning Horse

The Horsehead (Barnard 33) and Flame (NGC 2024) nebulae together with Alnitak. My best image so far of this wonderful region of sky. Taken with red, green and blue filters on a monochrome miniCam8. Also my first colour image from filters, possibly my first proper astrophotograph. It still needs more time and effort to develop into a propper image (if you go pixel peeking there is too much noise). But I am happy with this effort from my trusty old TeleVue60is refractor. And of course, the SetiAstro Pro processing software from Franklin Marek, best open source astro software on the planet.

Horsehead Nebula

Another reprocessed image.  This time it was my long attempted target of the Horsehead nebula, Barnard 33 in Orion (Original here).  Again the raw files were developed before processing and stacking. The improvements can be seen mainly in the more accurate colour reproduction and reduced blooming of the bright stars.  

Barnard 33

Next target was Barnard 33, the Horsehead nebula, and the flame nebula near Alnitak in the Orion constellation.