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NGC2024 Flame Nebula, Jerry Macon
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NGC2024 Flame Nebula

NGC2024 Flame Nebula, Jerry Macon
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NGC2024 Flame Nebula

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This was imaged the first winter my obs was operational, Feb 2016, and processed May 2016. The Canon 6D (modified) was cooled to about 45 degrees F below ambient using my homemade cooler. It was a huge box, 2" thick styrofoam walls using a cooling unit taken from a Coleman 12 volt cooler. This link https://www.astrobin.com/242729/ shows two of them enclosing 2 6Ds. It was quite a monstrosity, but worked.

The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It is about 900 to 1,500 light-years away.

The bright star Alnitak (ζ Ori), the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion, shines energetic ultraviolet light into the Flame and this knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. Additional dark gas and dust lies in front of the bright part of the nebula and this is what causes the dark network that appears in the center of the glowing gas. The Flame Nebula is part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, a star-forming region that includes the famous Horsehead Nebula.

At the center of the Flame Nebula is a cluster of newly formed stars, 86% of which have circumstellar disks. X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory show several hundred young stars, out of an estimated population of 800 stars. X-ray and infrared images indicate that the youngest stars are concentrated near the center of the cluster.

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NGC2024 Flame Nebula, Jerry Macon