Monday 29 October 2012

The Horsehead, the flame and the great Orion nebula

These images were taken through a 4" refractor. M42-43 was made from 60 min exposures with RGB filters plus 5 hours exposure with 10 min subframes in H-alpha:


This image of the Horsehead and Flame nebulae was made from 60 min exposure time through each of the RGB filters plus 3 hours of luminance with a Lumicon H-alpha filter: