Horsehead and NGC2023

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:21 pm

TWO CLEAR NIGHTS WITH NO MOON IN A ROW!!! As tired as I am from last night and with a splitting headache from overexposure to the sun on an open tractor all day - I can't pass up the opportunity for such clear and dark skies. Currently shooting M78 in Orion, here's last nights image of the Horsehead nebula, (Barnard 33) in Orion. 20 x five-minute exposures combined for a total of one hour and 40 minutes exposure. At 1500 light years away, this dark nebula blocks out the light with it's concentration of thick, dusty stellar material. Below it, the blue reflection nebula NGC 2023 glows from it's burrowing inner star.

antares2063 · Post by **antares2063** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:29 pm

wow..nice! thanks for sharing

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 2:32 pm

My pleasure.

antares2063 · Post by **antares2063** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:40 pm

last year, we tried visually to view Horsehead thru two separate 12" dobs equipped with H beta filter in mersing, Malaysia ..with no luck so far

regards,
junwei

Post by **Airconvent** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 1:01 am

That's a nice shot Barry!
I have yet to see this elusive object even from a relatively big scope in dark skies. Hope to catch it one day

SingAstro

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