{"id":9548,"date":"2012-01-25T09:33:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T09:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9548"},"modified":"2012-01-24T20:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T20:47:22","slug":"horse-head-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/horse-head-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse Head Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the Horsehead nebula\u00a0(also known as\u00a0<strong>Barnard 33<\/strong>\u00a0in emission nebula\u00a0IC 434). I remember looking at amazing photos of it in astronomy books and marvelling at it. It is\u00a0s a\u00a0dark nebula\u00a0in the constellation\u00a0Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star\u00a0Alnitak, which is farthest west on Orion&#8217;s Belt.<\/p>\n<p>I haven;t yet been able to see it through our telescope, but I was pretty pleased to manage to capture it, albeit faintly, in a photo. The photo was taken using my Canon 450D with a 60mm lens, piggyback mounted on the telescope. You can quite clearly see the Flame Nebula (<strong>NGC 2024<\/strong>) just below the atar Alnitak and to the right o f it you can make out the dark horsehead shape of the horsehead nebula too.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9560\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Horsehead and Flame Nebula\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/orion_nebulas_web.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9560\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9560 \" title=\"orion_nebulas_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/orion_nebulas_web-477x480.jpg\" alt=\"Horsehead Nebula\" width=\"477\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/orion_nebulas_web-477x480.jpg 477w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/orion_nebulas_web-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/orion_nebulas_web.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Horsehead Nebula<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ok, it&#8217;s nothing compared to some of the truly amazing photos that some astro-photographers manage to produce, but considering the equipment I&#8217;m using and the fact that I&#8217;m new to it all I&#8217;m quite pleased to have captured this. It&#8217;s pretty clever that a standard SLR camera with a small 60mm lens can capture detail in something that is 1,500 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the Horsehead nebula\u00a0(also known as\u00a0Barnard 33\u00a0in emission nebula\u00a0IC 434). I remember looking at amazing photos of it in astronomy books and marvelling at it. It is\u00a0s a\u00a0dark nebula\u00a0in the constellation\u00a0Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star\u00a0Alnitak, which is farthest west on Orion&#8217;s Belt. 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