IC 434 Horsehead & Flame

[+Ibbo]

A quickie 6 x 600 in ha

[+Graham]

Thats none too shabby for so little data.

Nice one Steve 

[Brady]

Loving that Steve, what gear was it taken with?

[philjay]

Nice. Always a favourite of mine that area

[Stephen]

Nice one Steve one of my favourite areas to look at

[StuartJPP]

Very nice indeed, especially for such little data.

[+Ibbo]

On 08/11/2016 at 14:14, Brady said:

Loving that Steve, what gear was it taken with?

TS IS 71 and SX694 with ha filter

[Orion]

My first attempt at trying to image the horse head nebula. Alnitak, flame nebula and horsehead nebula. Stack of 21 x 60s, iso 800, 70-300 mm zoom lens at 300mm.  Tracked Canon 1100d on my new Sky Watcher Star Adventurer - first test run.  I'm not into image processing properly yet, only started, so these are not great, but a start in the learning process. The pleasing thing was, I've been wanting to see this nebula for years, and seeing it appear on the image was enough. I could see the flame nebula dark streaks appear next to Alnitak on single frames coming in on APT.  I think the last image (the green one based on a stack of 5) might be so enlarged on this screen, the noise dots make it difficult to see the horsehead outline (it was saved as a 4 Mb crop), but the two red images were heavily reduced in file size (<1Mb), so might display smaller (I'm not sure). The red ones were of a bigger stack of 21 x 60s though. Nothing in comparison to IBBO's though, which is excellent.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+Ibbo]

22 hours ago, Orion said:

My first attempt at trying to image the horse head nebula. Alnitak, flame nebula and horsehead nebula. Stack of 21 x 60s, iso 800, 70-300 mm zoom lens at 300mm.  Tracked Canon 1100d on my new Sky Watcher Star Adventurer - first test run.  I'm not into image processing properly yet, only started, so these are not great, but a start in the learning process. The pleasing thing was, I've been wanting to see this nebula for years, and seeing it appear on the image was enough. I could see the flame nebula dark streaks appear next to Alnitak on single frames coming in on APT.  I think the last image (the green one based on a stack of 5) might be so enlarged on this screen, the noise dots make it difficult to see the horsehead outline (it was saved as a 4 Mb crop), but the two red images were heavily reduced in file size (<1Mb), so might display smaller (I'm not sure). The red ones were of a bigger stack of 21 x 60s though. Nothing in comparison to IBBO's though, which is excellent.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

did you use any calibration files darks or flats with this.

I often don't use them with the ccd but always have to with the DSLR

[Orion]

Steve, I only used darks.  I've not got to the stage yet of what a calibration file or flat is, or how to do them. Nor the thing where you take a photo of a bright screen either.

[+Ibbo]

A flat is an image of bright screen