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It's been a very very cloudy winter and spring of 2023 in the South Bay. A quick estimate by the experimental Google AI engine, Bard, states that there have been 133 nights that were cloudy or partly cloudy out of 147. That sounds a bit high (it is experimental after all), but if you combine the poor seeing nights that had some reasonable peoriods of clear skies....it's a pretty darned small number. So what do astrophotographers do when there are long stretches of cloudy nights? They revisit old data to try and process it better. I wanted to revisit IC434 and Berndard 33 - aka the Horsehead Nebula - using some new SW and another year under my belt of learning image processing (an infinite endevor, as any astrophotographer knows), including fancy sounding image processing tools like generalized hyperbolic stretch transformation, and neural network based star seperation and recomposition. The Horsehead is formed by a coincidentally shaped cloud of dust and gas that is in front of the emmitting ionized gas and shadows the H-Alpha emmision. The second nebula near the bottom of the page that looks like an explosion of sorts is called the Flame Nebula. This was taken in the Winter of 2022 - I never had the chance to revisit this target in '23 due to clouds clouds and more clouds. It is just around 3 hours of exposure using a narrowband H-Alpha filter, picking up the red ionized emission. The field of view (FoV) of this image is about 2.5 moons wide, so this target is quite large in the sky, and requires a widefield telescoe to capture (this is 80mm aperture at 430mm focal length). It is located in the constellation of Orion, and the bright star in between the Horsehead and Flame nebula is Alnitak - the left most star in Orion's belt. I'll be patiently waiting the next string of nights where clear skies line up with decent seeing, and doesn't conflict with late work demands. I've got some new gear, and some new control SW that I'm dying to use....which in astrophotographer lore means.....many more cloudy nights to come before I get to use it all!