IC434 Horsehead Nebula, HaRGB

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IC434 Horsehead Nebula, HaRGB

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Captured 3rd & 5th Jan 2026, 100% and 90% moon, temperature -5°C, 2h integration, Bortle 6.

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Hardware: Celestron AVX mount, Vixen 81sd refractor with 0.67x reducer/flattener, Atik 9-slot filter wheel (Altair LRGBHaOiiiSii+ dark filters), Atik 314L+ CCD camera, QHY mini guide scope with QHY5LII-M camera.
Capture: SharpCap
Processing: PixInsight

Processing (PixInsight):
  • WBPP, Calibration/integration with drizzle 1x
  • MultiMediaTransform, noise reduction in layer 1 & 2
  • ChannelCombination, RGB
  • SpectroPhotometricColorCalibration
  • STF + HT, delinearise
  • NBRGBCombination script, blend RGB and Ha, Ha Scale=1.5
  • Denoise
  • Histogram, CurvesTranformation
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Re: IC434 Horsehead Nebula, HaRGB

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Nice image and processing Dave, caught some nice details
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Re: IC434 Horsehead Nebula, HaRGB

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Thanks Les.

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