
Horesehead and Flame (in Explore 8 Feb 2025)
The Horsehead and Flame nebulae in Orion. The famous Horsehead is a dark nebula, catalogued as Barnard 33, framed by the Hydrogen Alpha emissions of IC434. The large bright star is Alnitak, the furthest East of the three stars of Orion’s belt and further east is The Flame Nebula, NGC 2024. Further emission nebulae, including NGC2023, IC435 and VdB51 also feature.
The total image is composed of a total of 7 hours 13 minutes of Hydrogen Alpha and RGB data.
Full details on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/kviaqr

The Heart and Soul Nebulae (in Explore 2 January 2025)
Wishing you all a Happy New Year.
More background and details on Astrobin: app.astrobin.com/i/2lufbh

The Pleiades (M45)
The Pleiades or Seven Sisters is an open star cluster in the constellation Taurus. The seven main stars are easily visible with the naked eye.
This is a reprocessed version of an image taken back in October 2023 which now reveals fainter dust surrounding the main stars.
More details on Astrobin: astrob.in/48x9ar/B/

Cederblad 51
There are so many delights in Orion. This region in the head of Orion spans Barnard’s Loop. Cederblad 51 is the blue reflection nebula near the centre which is surrounded by various LDN and Barnard dark structures together with areas of Hydrogen Alpha emissions.
More details on the capture and annotated version on Astrobin: astrob.in/wngl0f/E/

The Valentine Rose (SH2-174) (in Explore 9 Dec 2024)
H2-174 the Valentine Rose, is a mysterious object and extremely faint at a magnitude of 14.7 located in the northern constellation Cepheus. It’s also the most northerly entry in the Sharpless Catalogue at 81° North.
Imaged over several nights in August and September with my colour camera with Ha combined with the pure RGB totalling just over 18 hours.
High resolution and capture details on Astrobin: astrob.in/397bww/0/