James,
Nice work and better than anything I ever got out of my Hyperstar.
Bernard
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From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On
Behalf Of James Yoder
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2018 4:24 AM
To: az-astroimaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [AZ-Observing] The Horsehead with Celestron C-11 Primary and Hyperstar
imaging
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 horse’s 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
horse’s 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
horse’s 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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