First attempt at Horsehead Nebula

[rj144]

I tried to get Orion and the Horsehead Nebula last night. The colors are a bit off and I'll work more on it later:

On the bottom left, to the right of the brightest star on the bottom left, is a very faint red nebula that's the Horsehead Nebula. It's red though and by default, normal cameras have infrared filters that block out a lot of the red that the nebula produces. So, even though I took this over 2 hours and it's 650 pics, I need to do more to get it to stand out. Probably at least another 4 hours. I'll see what I can do.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

bad ass, sherbro.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Looks like a butterfly...

 

[lostdog000]

glad u didnt give a horse head

 

[M4rk]

Sweet

 

[clutchCAT420]

Fascinating times we live in.

 

[Ichibanner]

What's gonna happen if I Google "Horsehead"?

 

[FyrFytr998]

Sweet pics. I'd love it if you circled or highlighted it. You say bottom left and to the right of the brightest star, but the red blob is just under and slightly left. So am I looking for something different?

 

[rj144]

Sweet pics. I'd love it if you circled or highlighted it. You say bottom left and to the right of the brightest star, but the red blob is just under and slightly left. So am I looking for something different?

Yeah, it's very hard to see here. I circled the spot in the original image, then zoomed in and made it brighter, and circled and outlined it in the zoomed pic:

 

[DaleBoca]

I rewatched Interstellar for the 10x last night. Space is so damn interesting.


Ps- I’m not crying, you’re crying!

 

[FyrFytr998]

Yeah, it's very hard to see here. I circled the spot in the original image, then zoomed in and made it brighter, and circled and outlined it in the zoomed pic:

Thanks man. I could see the red haze but wasn’t sure if it was the red blobby thing. These are awesome pics.

 

[rj144]

Thanks man. I could see the red haze but wasn’t sure if it was the red blobby thing. These are awesome pics.

No problem.

 

[KeepingItReal]

Why not just put these in one thread and title them "RJ's Space Odyssey"?

 

[rj144]

This is from last night. You can see the Horsehead a little better, but there's greenish noise all over that I need to work on getting rid of, so I'm not quite done yet:

 

[rj144]

I managed to get rid of the green tint, but now the stars in the middle are a little red, but I think it's the best I can get with this image:

 

[genecop]

Incredible, mind blown...

 

[rj144]

Incredible, mind blown...

Thanks... if you have a camera and tripod you can take these too with a lot of patience.

 

[genecop]

Thanks... if you have a camera and tripod you can take these too with a lot of patience.

I don’t have either, but it’s funny how everyone talks about and questions the existence of miracles, and here they sit, directly in front of us...thanks for the reminder...

 

[genecop]

Do you have to be in a specific, (low light non city) location to capture those?

 

[rj144]

Do you have to be in a specific, (low light non city) location to capture those?

I took some pics from here:

I went to a lightly darker place (around the corner) for the photos in this thread, but I got this from in the middle of that courtyard: