very nice, way clearer and more beautiful than my edit! thanks for sharing!!! Good to see what is possible to get out of the data in post processing. greetings from Switzerland

Hi! The image was taken with my own equipment. I have a Newtonian telescope Skywatcher Quattro Carbon with 800mm focal length combined with an Astro camera ZWO Asi071 MC pro. The mount is a Skywatcher EQ6r pro. Pretty old gears, but as long as I'm the limiting factor and not the gear there's no reason to get more modern equipment ;-) I imaged the Horsehead nebula from a beautiful bortle3 sky in the eastern part Switzerland at 1600m altitude in the night from 27 to 28 December 2025. I do not think that I would ever request telescope time but rather keep on imaging with my own equipment. At the beginning it's quite complicated and time consuming, getting a good result involves a lot of trial & error, but at the end seeing the result is highly rewarding, way more than downloading a dataset. For me, the complete process from start to finish is what makes this hobby so rewarding: the planning of the object to photograph, decide how to frame the object, figuring out the best parameters to use, generate the calibration files, being outside during the night for gathering the images and then the pre-processing and post-processing.