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The Horsehead Nebula

Horsehead Nebula

The aptly named Horsehead Nebula is located in the Orion complex. It is a small dark-nebula that is approximately 1375 light-years from earth. 

This image was made with a Nikon Z7 and a Nikon 500mm f/5.6 lens at f/5.6. A total of 68 30-second exposures at ISO 3200 were made for a total of 34 minutes exposure time. Star tracking was with an Astrotrac TT320x. Image stacking was done with Deep Sky Stacker using the kappa-sigma clipping method. Final image processing was done in Capture One.