The Horsehead and Flame Nebula

My very first target with my telescope, was IC 434/Barnard 33, the Horse Head (and Flame) Nebula, about a year ago. At that time, my autoguiding camera was glitching and did not want to work. I could only do 3m exposures and even then, there was some star trails and blur in all the images. When I exchanged the guiding camera, the horse was too low in the horizon to re-do it, so I promised myself we would meet again in 2017.

We spent 4 hours, guided, on IC 434, and it looks much better now! Still not perfect, but until we are able to get a CCD camera, this will have to do!

IC 434 refers to the pink cloud you see behind the horse head. Barnard 33 is the actual Horse Head, which is a dark nebula.

 

Details:

Canon 7D Mii

6 minutes for each exposure - ISO 800

40 lights - Calibrated with 10 Darks and 30 Bias

Orion 8 "Astrograph f / 3.9

Atlas EQ-G

Baader MPCC Coma corrector MkIII

Starshoot Autoguider - 50mm Guide Scope

Processed with PixInsight

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