IC 434 / Barnard 33 the Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434. which you can see in the bottom left corner of this image

 

The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1,400 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head.

 

Telescope: Celestron C11-A XLT Schmidt Cassegrain OTA with 0.63x flattener/reducer.

Mount: SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro

 

Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro

Main Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -10C

Filter: ZWO UV IR Cut filter

Focuser: ZWO EAF

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI174MM Mini guidecam

Guide via: ZWO OAG

 

Stacked from:

Lights 12 at 300 seconds, gain 100, temp -10C

Darks 10 at 300 seconds, gain 100, temp -10C

Flat 30 at 80.0ms, gain 100, temp -10C

Dark Flat 30 at 80.0ms, gain 100, temp -10C

 

Bortle 4 sky.

Integrated the saved frames in Astro Pixel Processor and adjusted in Photoshop CS4.

 

Done