IC434

The fabled Horsehead Nebula in Orion is actually B33, and is highlighted by IC434 the nebulosity behind. The bright star near the middle is Alnitak, the leftmost star in the belt of Orion.
Taken from Austerfield with an M25C camera and H-Alpha filter, through an 80ED Skywatcher. The exposure was 4x900sec .

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