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IC 434, The Horsehead Nebula
 
   
Location and Date Taken at Lake San Antonio, California 9/26/2008
Telescope Orion Premium 190mm F/5.3 Maksutov-Newtonian OTA
Mount Astro-Physics 900GTO
Camera Orion StarShoot Pro
Exposure 22 x 300 and 6 x 480 second exposures
Guiding Orion StarShoot AutoGuider and 100mm f/6 refractor
Processing / Software MaxIm DL 4.58 and Adobe Photoshop 7.1, First image used with Noise Ninja, I am pleased with the results!
Notes This is my forth generation image of the photogenic Horsehead Nebula. The familiar shapes and vast size and color complexity make this object in Orion an imaging favorite.