Horsehead and Flame nebula

The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, in the Orion constellation.

The Horsehead Nebula is approximately at 1400 light-years from Earth.

 

This is a two panel mozaic

Pre process : flic.kr/p/2mZk6WG

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -25°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : Panel 1-41x300s / Panel 2-36x300s

Total integration time 6,5h

Dark-100x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 25,24 January 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE master Light

Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light

 

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Denoise

Ez_Soft Streatch

UnsharpedMask

LocalHistogramEqualization

 

__RGB__

Linear Fit

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

Starnet++

CuvesTransformation with mask

SCNR star mask

Bring back stars with PixelMath

 

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Final CurvesTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance Script

Save as jpg

 

Clear Skies !

Done