Horse(head)ing around... - a photo on Flickriver

Horse(head)ing around...

            Can the Horsehead nebula, featured in many great astrophotographs, also be recorded under a sky with a nearly-full moon (92%), without any narrowband filters, and with an old, unmodified, mirrorless APS-C camera?

Naaah, come off it, you'll probably say... But to my big surprise, it actually worked! Here you see the result!

Granted, it's not exactly pretty, particularly compared to what some of the pros here on flickr show. But it's there, right in the middle of this slightly adjusted 100% crop from a larger image taken with the TAIR-3S 300 mm f/4.5 (@f/5.6). The exposure time was relatively short (34x 30 s at ISO3200) since it was getting late and my spare battery was running expect to actually be able to bring out this faint H-alpha emission nebula under these unfavourable conditions...
But this shows it actually can be done, so I'm waiting anxiously for the sky to clear  up again (ideally also with less moonlight) to stack up a lot more exposure time on this fascinating group of objects.

In the meantime, please enjoy this "Because It Can Be Done!" version of Ol' Horsey!

Hint: turn off the lights and set the image to full screen to better see the very faint Horsehead nebula.

EXIF:
Lens: TAIR-3S 300 mm f/4.5, stopped down to f/5.6
Camera: Samsung NX30 mirrorless APS-C, unmodified
Filters: Rollei Astroklar broadband city light pollution filter
Mount: Skywatcher Star Adventurer

Processing:
Stacking: Deep Sky Stacker
Post-processing: fitswork
final touch: Aurora HDR
   

Taken on: January 18, 2022

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TAIR-3S

300 mm f/4.5

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Samsung NX30

unmodified

Star Adventurer

unguided

Rollei Astroklar

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