Horsehead Nebula

Horsehead Nebula. This has been on my target list for past couple of years, finally was able to capture it this past week. Taken over a period of four nights.

Scope: Esprit 100 ED
Mount: CEM60
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI2600mc
Guide: QHY5L-II - OAG
Subs: 260x120sec (Over three nights) Cooled to -10 deg
L-Enhance Filter 68x300sec on the fourth night
Calibrated with 30 Darks, 30 Flats, and 30 Flat-darks
Processed in PixInsight. For the final image combined the Red channel of L-Enhance filter (Ha data) with RGB.

Fantastic!, such detail. I've a long way to go for my horse head to look like this!

Thanks. Keep at it, and gather more data when possible. Moving from a dslr to cooled asi2600mc helped a lot, as the camera is very sensitive and very low read noise.

My main enemy is cloud, it's cloudy a whole heap right now and the next week is unlikely to give me any joy. In the mean time, I'll enjoy pictures like yours!

Fantastic!

If this image doesn’t inspire, nothing will.

Amazing image.

Stunning!