Object Description: I have been wanting to do this image for three years, since I vaguely saw it in a wide-field Ha image of Orion. I thought I was the first to do a close-up, but I found one other example posted on the internet at Bernard Hubl's site. The dark nebula in the center top is Barnard32. There is a bright nebula near the center that is cataloged as CED51. I am not sure if CED51 refers to the HII region or the bright reflection nebula, CED51 is only listed as a Bright Nebula. Also the location for CED51 is not clear, but according to Simbad, it is located some arcseconds away. If it applies to the emission nebula, then the reflection nebula is not cataloged, SIMBAD is not clear on this. In the interim, I will add this to my reflection nebula catalog as Hernandez3. Neil Fleming calls it the Eagle Head Nebula. The image is oriented North up.

Telescope: Takahashi FSQ106N
Camera: Canon 40D self-modified w/ Baader UV/IR cut filter
Mount: ParamountME unguided
Filters: none

Date Taken: 17NOV2009
Location: Lot4, Arcturus Way, Sacramento Mountains Astronomy Park, Weed, NM
Sky Conditions: transparency 3/5, seeing averaged 1.56 arcseconds for the night.
Image Acquisition: 72x300s, iso800 using CCDCommander & CCDSoft

Image Processing: ImagesPlus 3.80 used for data reduction, alignment, SigMed combine, initial DDP. PSCS2 used for levels, curves, and color enhancement. GradX for background equalization.