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IC434 Horsehead Nebula 01-2023, Fabian Butkovich
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IC434 Horsehead Nebula 01-2023

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IC434 Horsehead Nebula 01-2023, Fabian Butkovich
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IC434 Horsehead Nebula 01-2023

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I originally acquired subframes for this nebula shortly after I purchased my ZWO ASI183MC Pro back in January of this year, however because of bad auto-guiding and poor star shapes, I was hesitant to stack and post-process the data, I decided to give it a try and this photo is the result. Living in a Bortle 7 light-pollution zone, I always have to tame my expectations of photographing narrowband spectra deep sky objects such as the horsehead nebula, however I'm quite pleased at how much detail I could extract with just 4 hours of integration time in this image. 

I did not use any filters such as the popular UV/IR cut filter for my ASI183MC in this situtation, as I wanted to maximize how much hydrogen alpha light the sensor can collect.

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IC434 Horsehead Nebula 01-2023, Fabian Butkovich