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Date: 08/12/2007 Deepskystacker: Average stacking

Horsehead Region in Orion - The large blueish star to the centre left is Alnitak.  The rightmost star (from southern hemisphere) of the belt of Orion.  Below Alnitak is the "Flaiming Tree" nebula, NGC2024.  To  the right of Alnitak is the famous  dark dust in the shape of a horse head,  B33.   The horse head nebula is 1,400 light years from earth.  This lies in front of  the large whispy red emmission nebula, IC434.

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Location: Golden Grove Western Australia Photoshop CS2:   levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion .
Camera: Canon 20D - Standard
Optics: SkyWatcher ED80  
Exposure: 6 x 513 Seconds - Total 51 minutes  
Guiding: DSI on LX200R