Clearest Photos Ever Of Horsehead Nebula

Posted by Hemos on Sunday January 27, 2002 @03:52AM from the looking-deeply-into-the-continium dept.

angkor writes "A new composite image created from high-res photographs. Wow, just wow. You can see it at SpaceFlightNow."

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If you look closely enough... by Guppy06 · 2002-01-27 03:56 · Score: 4, Funny

You can almost make out the words:

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Damn, still not good enough! by mr3038 · 2002-01-27 04:49 · Score: 4, Funny

Am I the only one trying to find Magrathea from those photos?

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alternate picture by talleyrand · 2002-01-27 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Here's am image what of the astronomers used to see.

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Re:code is no different by spaceyhackerlady · 2002-01-27 11:11 · Score: 3, Funny

It's not. The parent post is inaccurate. The horsehead nebula is actually just off Orion's belt.

Yep. The Great Orion nebula, aka M42, is a naked-eye object under any reasonably un-light-polluted sky. I see it well in 7x50 binoculars, and it's amazing in my 115 mm telescope. I see 4 stars in the Trapezium easily, and under good conditions the nebula is faintly green. It photographs as pink, but that's another story about the different spectral response of the humn eye and colour film.
The Horsehead nebula, on the other hand, is tough. I have photographs that show M42 clearly, with a limiting magnitude about 7.5, but not a hint of I434 and friends, which is 3 degrees north of M42.
...laura, looking forward to seeing NGC3372 aka the Eta Carinae nebula in a few weeks