IC434 Horsehead Nebula, HaRGB
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2026 8:21 pm
Captured 3rd & 5th Jan 2026, 100% and 90% moon, temperature -5°C, 2h integration, Bortle 6.
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):
- Horsehead_Nebula.JPG (48.68 KiB) Viewed 1282 times
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