I decided to take two images of the famous Horsehead nebula. One wide
angle that show the region around the horsehead, and another zoomed into
the horsehead itself. Both images were taken with the same
telescope(Celestron C-11). The wide angle with the Starizona Hyperstar
configuration.
The Horsehead Region
<http://www.artcentrics.com/Best_PhotoGraphs/AstroPhotography/Astronomy_NGC2024_20181005.jpg>
Date: 2018.10.06
Configuration : C-11 | Starizona Hyperstar
<https://starizona.com/hyperstar/> | QHY128 camera
<http://www.qhyccd.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid&id> |
Location: Massacre grounds Trailhead
<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Massacre+grounds+Trailhead/@33.4714065,-111.47167,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x872bc7fe77a26487:0x507b70ed9fe4d241!8m2!3d33.471402!4d-111.469476>
Imaging Details: 14 frames @ 5min exposure = 70min
Imaging Software: PixInsight <https://pixinsight.com/>
The Horsehead Nebula
<http://www.artcentrics.com/Best_PhotoGraphs/AstroPhotography/Astronomy_IC434_PF_20181208_ScreenRes.jpg>
Date: 2018.12.08
Configuration : C-11 | Starizona LF Corrector
<https://starizona.com/store/imaging/focal-reducers/starizona-sct-corrector-lf-large-format-reducer-coma-corrector>
|
OPT Triad Filter
<https://optcorp.com/products/opt-triad-tri-band-narrowband-filter> | QHY128
camera
<http://www.qhyccd.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid&id> |
Location: Chandler Front Yard
Imaging Details: 39 frames @ 5min exposure = 195min
Imaging Software: PixInsight <https://pixinsight.com/>
As always, these and other Astrophotography images can be found at the
ArtCentrics
website <http://www.artcentrics.com/> at the AstroPhotography webpage
<http://www.artcentrics.com/Best_PhotoGraphs/AstroPhotography/AstroPhotography.htm>
.
Enjoy!
Information on the horsehead obtained from Constellation Guide website
<https://www.constellation-guide.com/>.
The Horsehead Nebula is a famous diffuse dark nebula found in the Orion
Molecular Cloud Complex in the constellation Orion
<https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/orion-constellation/>
.
It is a dark cloud composed of dust and gas where star formation is taking
place. The nebula is also known as Barnard 33, and is located in the
emission nebula IC 434. The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1,500 light
years distant from Earth.
The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most easily identifiable nebulae in the
sky as its shape resembles that of a horseâs head and neck when observed
from Earth. The swirling clouds of gas and dark dust are lit by a pinkish
glow of hydrogen gas located behind the nebula and ionized by the nearby
bright star Sigma Orionis. Sigma Orionis, which is in fact a five-star
system, illuminates the entire region.
The Horsehead can only be seen because its obscuring dust is silhouetted
against the brighter nebula IC 434. The nebulous region that forms the
horseâs head is just part of a larger dust cloud.
The nebula is really an extremely dense cloud projecting in front of the
ionized hydrogen gas. This is revealed by the fact that lower side of the
horseâs neck is particularly dark and casts a shadow to the east
The Horsehead Nebula is one of the best known and most photographed stellar
nurseries in the night sky. It can contain more than a hundred known gases,
both organic and inorganic, and also complex, large organic molecules of
dust.
James Yoder
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