IC434 & NGC2024 + M78 - The Orion's Belt (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka) (Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 34 Ori) · 46 Ori) · 48 Ori · 50 Ori) · Flame Nebula · IC 423 · IC 426 · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · NGC 2064 · NGC 2067 · NGC 2071 · Orion B · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star Alnilam (ε Ori · The star Alnitak (ζ Ori · The star Mintaka (δ Ori · The star σ Ori

IC434 & NGC2024 + M78 - The Orion's Belt (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka), Observatório Astrográfico do Boqueirão

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IC434 & NGC2024 + M78 - The Orion's Belt (Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka)

My last Winter target! The Orion's belt featuring the visible stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka, with also the Horsehead nebula (IC434), the Flame nebula (NGC2024), the Messier 78 and a tiny bit of the Barnard's Loop at the corner, beside of going deep on this area of the sky and pulling off the faint surrounding ionized hydrogen gases that are many times forgotten by astrophotographers.
With this image as well with the M42 in a widefield, I already have plans for next Winter to build a mosaic of the entire constellation, by doing more two other panels of the remaning areas.
Let's see if 2024 and 2025's weather gives us a good Winter Sky.

RGB (CFA + Optolong L-Extreme F/2 High Speed) 300s x 60 F/2.8 - Gain 100 - Bin 1x1 - Offset 70 - Focal Lengh 135mm

50 Dark Frames + 150 Flats Frames + 150 Dark Flat Frames

The Moon was in the first night of acquisition, in the Waxing Crescent phase at 16.6% of ilumination, in a Bortle scale of 4 (21.63 Mag/Arc.Sec).

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