| Designation |
B33 ( Horsehead Nebula -
detail ) |
| Constellation |
Orion ( Ori ) |
| Coordinates |
05 h 41 min -02° 28' |
| Description |
The Horsehead nebula (B33) is
actually a dark interstellar cloud in our Milky Way that obscures part of
a bright red emission nebula.
Images on the left are made by the 240cm Hubble Space
Telescope, those on the right by the Antilhue Observatory's 38cm
telescope. To eliminate the effect of color caused by different
filter sets, the lower pair shows only the grayscale information.
Click here
to see all of Antilhue's Horsehead in native resolution.
|
| Exposure |
NRGB 220:75:75:75 min @ -25°C,
RGB binned 2x2 |
| Camera |
SBIG STL-11000 selfguided, Astronomik
Type II RGB Filterset |
| Optics |
RCOS 14.5" Ritchey-Chrétien
@ f/9
(prime focus) |
| Mount |
Astro-Physics AP1200GTO |
| Software |
MaxIm DL/CCD, Sigma Pre
Beta 11, Registar, Adobe
Photoshop CS |
| Location - Date - Time |
San Esteban (Chile) - 30/31Oct2005 -
07:00 UTC |
| Conditions |
Transparency 7/10, Seeing
7/10, Temperature +11°C |
