The constellation of Orion is home to many fine deep sky objects as well as M42 which featured in my last post. This one is IC-434, the Horsehead nebula. Probably the most photographed object in the sky it lies in the vicinity of the left star (Alnitak) in Orion’s belt (for northern hemisphere observers).
On the left hand side of the picture is the Flame nebula.
This is a work in progress and is a stack of the first four 5 minute exposures taken with GRAS-010, a TEC 140 and SBIG STL-11000M camera with a luminance filter.
