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Horsehead Nebula in SHO

This was an image that I captured over the course of five nights after having completely disassembled my Takahashi astrograph, cleaning the lenses, reassembling...
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This was an image that I captured over the course of five nights after having completely disassembled my Takahashi astrograph, cleaning the lenses, reassembling, and collimating the scope myself after it had taken on some rainwater.

Using a full frame cooled astronomy camera I captured 5 minute exposures using narrow band filters that isolate incoming light to 7 nanometer bands around a particular wavelength associated with some ionized gas.

Sii - Sulphur (Deeper Gold Tones)
Ha - Hydrogen Alpha (Gold Tones)
Oiii - Oxygen (Blue Tones)
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smshaffer PRO+
 
smshaffer Jan 15
Awesome
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CosmicOrigin Jan 15
Thank you
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SettingSky Jan 15
Gorgeous!
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SherrieMosher Jan 16
If Rembrandt painted the universe, it would be in these colours. Just wonderful work.
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SteBil30 Mar 18
INCREDIBLE!!!!!
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