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IC434 (Horse Head Nebula)

Image taken at Clayton Bay, South Australia

Equipment - GSO RC12 STXL11002

Guiding - AOX

Software - MaximDL, Focusmax, Pinpoint, CCDautopilot 5

LHaRGB 24.3 hours

Processed in CCD stack and Photoshop CS6

Object -Located in the constellation of Orion at a distance of 1500 light years. It is a dark nebula which is part of a much larger molecular cloud complex.