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Flame & Horsehead Nebula
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NGC 2024 & B33: The Flame and Horsehead nebulae are located around Zeta Orionis (Altnitak) the third belt star in the constellation Orion. NGC 2024 and IC 434 are are emission nebulae. IC 434 is the bright red "reef that highlight the Horsehead. The flame nebula is visible in moderate sized telescopes, but the Horsehead is an ellusive target even for large scopes except under the best dark sky conditions.
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Image Details
Telescope: Takahashi FS60C at f/4.4 (with focal reducer) piggy backed on an LX200 SCT tube on a Losmandy G-11 mount
Camera: Starlight Xpress MX7C - single shot color ccd camera
Exposure: 50 - 90 second (1 hour, 15 minutes) unguided exposures captured with AstroArt (2.0) in High Res Progresive mode (unbinned).
Image scale: 6.71 arcsec/pixel
FOV: 65.1 X 84.1 arcmin
Processing: Exposures combined and color synthesized in AA 2.0 using Mike's color synthesis plugin. Final processing in Photoshop 7.0
Location: Chiefland Astronomy Village in Chiefland Florida. August 31, 2003 - 4:30 EDST. Stable magnitude 6.0 skies with moderate breeze and dew (81 degrees F)
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