The Horsehead Nebula

Jason Hissong Taken on 03/05/2004 at Hocking Hills State Part in Logan, OH Scope: Celestron Ultima 2000, Meade 3.3 reducer, Hutech IDAS LPR Filter Camera: SBIG ST7E cooled to -20 C. Exposure: 8x300s, 1x1 binning, autoguided with the ST7E Processing Details: Images aquired with CCDSoft V5 Dark and Flat calibrated each frame, adaptive add combined, soft DDP processing in Images Plus. Debloomed, unsharp masked in Photoshop 5.0, noise smoothed out in Neat Image. Exported to JPG with IrfanView.