By now I have been out a few nights and I feel like I am getting familiar with setting up the Sky Watcher – Star Adventurer GTi mount and my trusty old Nikon z5 with the Tamron 150 – 600 mm optics. Having photographed the obvious choices first I decided to attempt to challenge myself with something a little more difficult this time, hence I set out to photograph the Horsehead Nebula also known as IC 434.
However, I only managed to get 36 exposures with an exposure time of 30 seconds. Which is way too little to achieve a reasonable result, as seen in the photo above Furthermore I had some problems with wind gust again this results in some of the stars being smeared out across the image.
IC 434 – Facts
IC 434 is an emission nebula within the installation of Orion. It was originally discovered on February 1, 1786 by William Herschel. And it is part of a greater complex of molecular could within the Orion constallation.
The nebula is approximately 1500 ly away from earth and has an apparent magnitude of 7.3 in the V-band making it invisible without a telescope.