After the Friday night meeting and dinner, I mustered up the energy to catch some frames of the Horsehead nebula with a Baader 7nm Hydrogen Alpha filter. This type of narrowband imaging certainly opens up doors for astrophotography under light polluted skies.

I had a few challenges but it was great to finally catch some frames after a long stretch of poor weather. I was only able to capture 4x10min with the 80mm scope and QHY-8 camera before the clouds rolled in but with the help of the camera’s sensitivity and low noise plus the HA filter I was able to pull in much more detail than what would have been possible with my old camera even under good conditions.

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KerryLH

With Kerry’s permission I am posting her image after some colourization (TH):