IC434 The Horse Head Nebula & NGC2024 The Flame Nebula:
Despite the extreme cold weather this winter, I was
able to brave the elements on January 15th – It only bottomed out at
-11c (at 2am in St. Ann’s).
The bright eastern ‘belt’ star in Orion (named Alnitak)
is surrounded by these deep sky treasures: The Horse Head and Flame Nebula.
The trick is exposing them with long exposure photography,
without blowing out your picture with the strong blue glow of Alnitak!
Careful processing tricks allow you to isolate the
bright star glow while teasing out the detail of neighboring dim nebulosity! 3
hours of exposure and almost 4 hours of Photoshop processing went into this
image. Ethical processing must respect and maintain the images natural colour
and detail. I like to show it the way it was intended to be seen! As you can
guess, I admire the Creator and the detail in His artwork!
If you search the internet for Hubble images of the Horse
Head Nebula you will be blown away by the detail captured from Hubble!
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| 53 sub frames @ 3.5 minutes each = 3 hours, 5 minutes and 30 seconds total exposure @ 1600 ISO |
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