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Sitting here recovering from total knee replacement surgery I decided to combine earlier data (01/04/2024) with the data I collected on the night before surgery Sunday night 02/18/2024.  I think it turned out ok.  It's going to be a few weeks probably a month, before I will be able to move my rig out of the garage with the ZWO FF130 for its first night.  Anyway GalaxyZoo will keep me busy while I recover.

IC434
IC 434 is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It was discovered on February 1, 1786 by William Herschel. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula silhouetted against it.[1]
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Barnard 33
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 or B33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion.[2] The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434.[3]The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 422 parsecs or 1,375 light-years from Earth.[1][3] It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head.[4]
History
• The nebula was discovered by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming in 1888 on a photographic plate taken at the Harvard College Observatory.[5][6] One of the first descriptions was made by E. E. Barnard, describing it as: "Dark mass, diam. 4′, on nebulous strip extending south from ζ Orionis", cataloguing the dark nebula as Barnard 33.[7]StructureThe dark cloud of dust and gas is a region in the Orion molecular cloud complex, where star formation is taking place. It is located in the constellation of Orion, which is prominent in the winter evening sky in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer evening sky in the Southern Hemisphere.Colour images reveal a deep-red colour that originates from ionised hydrogen gas () predominantly behind the nebula, and caused by the nearby bright star Sigma OrionisMagnetic fields channel the gases, leaving the nebula into streams, shown as foreground streaks against the background glow.[8] A glowing strip of hydrogen gas marks the edge of the enormous cloud, and the densities of nearby stars are noticeably different on either side.Heavy concentrations of dust in the Horsehead Nebula region and neighbouring Orion Nebula are localized into interstellar clouds, resulting in alternating sections of nearly complete opacity and transparency.[9] The darkness of the Horsehead is caused mostly by thick dust blocking the light of stars behind it.[10] The lower part of the Horsehead's neck casts a shadow to the left.[11] The visible dark nebula emerging from the gaseous complex is an active site of the formation of "low-mass" stars. Bright spots in the Horsehead Nebula's base are young stars just in the process of forming.
  1. Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties"Astronomy & Astrophysics616. A1. arXiv:1804.09365Bibcode:2018A&A...616A...1Gdoi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051.
  2. Arnett, Bill (2000). "Horsehead Nebula". Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  3. "VLT Images the Horsehead Nebula"European Southern Observatory. 25 January 2002. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  4. Sharp, Nigel (2014). "The Horsehead Nebula"National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy. Archived from the original on March 13, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  5. Alex Newman (28 August 2017). "Unearthing the legacy of Harvard's female 'computers'"BBC News. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  6. Cannon, Annie J. (June 1911). "Williamina Paton Fleming"Science(published June 30, 1911). 33 (861): 987–988. Bibcode:1911Sci....33..987Cdoi:10.1126/science.33.861.987PMID17799863.
  7. Barnard, E. E. (1919). "On the dark markings of the sky, with a catalogue of 182 such objects". Astrophysical Journal49: 1–24. Bibcode:1919ApJ....49....1Bdoi:10.1086/142439.
  8. "The Horsehead Nebula/IC434"National Optical Astronomy Observatory. NOAO. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  9. Morgan, W.W.; Lodén, Kerstin (1966). "Some Characteristics of the Orion Association". Vistas in Astronomy8 (1): 83–88. Bibcode:1966VA......8...83Mdoi:10.1016/0083-6656(66)90023-7ISSN0083-6656.
  10. Mayo Greenberg, J (2002). "Cosmic dust and our origins". Surface Science500 (1–3): 793–822. Bibcode:2002SurSc.500..793Mdoi:10.1016/S0039-6028(01)01555-2ISSN0039-6028.
  11. Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (21 July 2009). "The Horsehead Nebula"Astronomy Picture of the DayNASA. Retrieved 12 May 2014.

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