Think You've Seen Orion?

WOW! Barnards Loop is HUGE!!! He makes looking for he Horsehead so easy! But I bet thats the hydrogen filters bringing it to prominence. I have not been able to nail the Horsehead in any scope I've had yet.

Seanie.

Hydrogen filters are a must with these diffuse clouds but to get the most with these filters you need a monochromatic camera along with LRGB filters.

I took a photo of the horsehead nebula a few nights ago. Prime focus, 60 second exposure. Could see a faint flaming tree nebula and barely the horse head.

Five minutes and arcsecond perfect alignment will be needed to get anything viewable. That and a CCD camera. Not going to mess my Canon up.

Yeah, Rob is truly a fantastic astrophootgrapher, what with a E18-20000 euro ccd camera :shock:

The Horsehead in notoriously difficult to see visually, I've personally only seen it once through my 8" SCT a couple of years ago, and that was under very good skies, I could even then only barely make out the horsehead shape, I should have sketched it!

Keith..

You should check out his gallery in the Galaxies section guys - there's some work there!

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Well,
What can you say, incredible!!
I've seen images of the loop before but never with so much detail and never in a way that really joined up to M42 and the horsehead, the wave like ripples around the lower center of the image are astounding !! :shock:

I tried the horsehead and just about detected it with the Canon, I was limited by the altaz tracking, not a hope visually.
Keith, did you use a hydrogeb beta filter when you saw it ??

checkout the nebula section under

www.robgendlerastropics.com/Nebulas.html

Theres an amazing image of ngc6960,
Even with broadband, the largest images take a good 10-15 seconds to download.
The resolution and detail in these pictures is stunning, I've never seen anything like it.
I'll be spending the rest of the night downloading everyone of these pictures.

Anyone got an A3 printer, I'd love a few of these in pictures for the house.