Astrophotography · Nebulae
Horsehead Nebula
Captured and Processed by Tanzila Tabassum
The object · NGC 2023
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- Photographer
- Tanzila Tabassum
- Observing location
- USA, Utah (39.422519,-111.714358)
- Exposure
- 20 min.
- Telescope
- Celestron RASA 11" (iTelescope - T68), 279/ 620 mm
- Camera
- ZWO ASI071 MC
- Field of view
- 2.22° × 1.46° (scales linearly with crop size) Diffraction limit ≈ 0.5″; practical sampling ≈ 1.6″/pixel (≈3.2″ effective)
- Image processing
- Tanzila Tabassum
- Processing method
- Data preparation Stacking Foreground subtraction Star position calibration Spectrophotometric color calibration Stretching Sharpening and denoising using ML Color saturation
Astrophotographic information
- Object type
- Emission and dark nebula
- Constellation
- Orion
- Distance
- 1350 to 1500 ly
- Angular size
- 60′ × 40′
- Physical size
- 6 ly and 3.5 ly
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.5
Astrophysical information