Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) & Horsehead Nebula


This image consists of 25 4-minute exposures taken in Tucson on Jan. 10.  This was one of the first images I shot last year.  The above image is less noisy than my first image.  The Flame nebula is to the left of the bright star Alnitak (the left-most star in Orion's belt).  It is about 900 ly from Earth and is part of the Orion molecular complex and includes the Horsehead nebula to the right of Alnitak. 

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