"BEAUTY NEAR THE BELT" - Sky & Telescope (April, 2018)
At the request of Sky & Telescope Terry reprocessed his earlier color image as a monotone image. This new rendition combines color data (converted to Grayscale) with H-Alpha data to produce a very dramatic effect. Alnitak (below center), the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt, anchors a rich region of nebulosity that features the broad glow of IC 434, with the Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) silhouetted against it, and the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) at bottom center. North is toward left.
Image can be found in Sky and Telescope April 2018 pages 72 and 73.
Terry Hancock & Walter Holloway
DETAILS: Takahashi FSQ-130ED astrograph and QHY367C
CCD camera with hydrogen-alpha and LRGB fi lters (rendered
in monochrome). Total exposure: 6.9 hours.
High Resolution: https://www.flickr.com/…/terryha…/39644782845/in/dateposted/
Image Details
Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com PurdyMesa, Colorado
Date: 13th, 14th October 2017
RGB 43 x 4 min,
H Alpha 5nm 24 x 10 min
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.
Optics: The Walter Holloway Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Filters by Chroma
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Registered, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6