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    IC 434 - The Horsehead Nebula, shot over 36 hours from my city rooftop
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    IC 434 – The Horsehead Nebula, shot over 36 hours from my city rooftop

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    4. Siguard_ on

      This is the level of detail we can get from a consumer available telescope and camera? Jesus.

    5. Glittering_Call_3875 on

      I’m sorry, what the fuck?? This is the coolest picture I’ve seen today

    6. carnage-chambers on

      Making this for my wife’s aunt. I took more than 40 hours of data total, but ended up culling about a third of my subs to keep just the sharpest ones (by star count and fwhm).

      Taken with a William Optics Pleiades 111 on a AM5N mount and ASI2600MM w/ Chroma filters.

      This is HSB palette – narrowband except for using regular visual Blue instead of Oxygen, since there isn’t much Oxygen in IC 434

      Roughly 20 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data using 300s subs
      Roughly 15 hours of Sulfur data using 300s subs
      Roughly 30 mins of Blue data using 60s subs

      Stacked in Pixinsight w/ 2x drizzle
      Bxt, nxt, sxt then 2x downsample
      Stretched
      Lrgb combo adding Ha as the Lum layer
      Export to DxO for color, cropping, and final edits

      [https://app.astrobin.com/i/kweclc](https://app.astrobin.com/i/kweclc)

    7. DisillusionedBook on

      What the hell is your rig on your roof!? Or is your roof a planetarium? This might be THE most impressive citizen science shot I’ve ever seen… and I’ve been a big space nerd since the 80s

    8. Baptor on

      So is this true colors or did you apply a filter. NASA has colorized so many of its pictures I dunno what’s real and what isn’t anymore.

    10. flyingthedonut on

      What makes is look like a cloud? Or whatever that is. Do we know whats happening out there to get it to look like that?