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Horse Head Nebula Rotated B33

Horse Head Nebula Rotated B33
While the Old year Ended and the New Started my final shot of the year edited 5am this morning. This is the Horse head nebula in the view we are more use to seeing but not in the colour's we would expect. This is the Hubble pallet with RGB stars.

Horse Head nebula  : Barnard 33  Do look large...

What is different about this to the last shot of the Horse head in November was being able to Rotate the focuser and also have a counter weight to offset the filter wheel. Where the filter wheel ends up the weight is opposite.

Two counter weights.


This was rotated 40 degrees straight up because of the scale I put on to suit the body of the focuser. The scale is long lines 10 and the small 5 degrees of rotation.

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The trial will continue and get slowly better refined so rotation will become the normal to suit the image much the same way on a DSLR we compose the shot we want. This was much the same way I used the ED80 and my Nikon lens all views rotated to suit the target.

Happy new Year to all the readers here and Look forward to 2025 and our shots, clear skies and cool nights

QHY183M -10c 100 Odd shots 5 min each filter over five nights .. 30 shots each RGB 1 min exposure.
QHYCFW3 and 7 Antlia filters LRGBSHaO
MeLE Mini PC
Pegasus Astro Pocket Mini power box
Starpoint Australis SP3 Focuser
Skywatcher 200 F4 PREMIUM PHOTO QUATTRO REFLECTOR OTA
Skywatcher F4 Aplanatic Coma Corrector
Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned
SVbony 50MM Guide scope
QHY5L-II-M Guide camera
Guided PHD2, Nina
Pixinsight, Ps, Lr

Xata, Chris Bowness, Patrick Brandy, Rrrolf and 14 other people have particularly liked this photo


Latest comments - All (27)
 Patrick Brandy
Patrick Brandy club
Splendide bonne et heure année 2025.
2 months ago.
 Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton club has replied
Thank you I certainly was and is a combination of two years. I do look forward to what 2025 brings.
2 months ago.
 Chris Bowness
Chris Bowness club
Fantastic last image of 2024. I'm so impressed at all of this and the end result speaks for itself.
2 months ago.
 Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton club has replied
Thank you Chris its not sit back and relax there is such a lot to organise to get shots like these. The truth is I am starting to enjoy the fruits of all the years of learning though and I agree the result speaks for it self. A good way to end and start the year.
2 months ago.
 Xata
Xata club
Just amazing…
9 days ago.

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