Horsehead Nebula

The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex.

This image also includes the Flame nebula in the lower left corner. Processed using the OSH palette to bring out the ionised glow of the Hydrogen gas in blue.

Image aligned, integrated and colour mapped by Arc Fortnight, original data downloaded from Telescope.live