BUSCA image of Horsehead Nebula





This image is a RGB composition produced by the combination of the four images obtained simultaneosly with an exposure of 300 seconds by Oliver Cordes . The filters used are Stromgren u,b,y and Cousins I. The scaling between the different filters is arbitrary. The original image size is 2Kx2K because the 4Kx4K CCDs 15 µ were readed out with binning 2x2. Field of view is 12x12 arcminutes.