Horsehead

On the same night that I was experimenting with my new Astronomik IR Filter, I tried the Horsehead nebula (IC434) after shooting the M1. This is a 25x150 sec exposure with equal darks. Flats were taken next morning and consisted of 130 x 15 sec flats corrected for Bias calculated from a median of 10x0 sec bias frames. Again the stars look good. There is even natural diffraction spikes :) There is a lot of noise and graininess here, because the moon was very close to the Orion Constellation when I shot this and seeing and transparency was not great either. And I KNOW that my flats are not good at this point. You can see some dust leftovers on the left of the image. One thing that I would like to change is the FOV. My current setup has a very limited FOV.