Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  48 Ori  ·  50 Ori)  ·  Flame Nebula  ·  IC 431  ·  IC 432  ·  IC 434  ·  NGC 2023  ·  NGC 2024  ·  Orion B  ·  The star Alnitak (ζ Ori  ·  The star σ Ori
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The Horse and the Flame, Armin Unterwandling
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2 Panel Mosaic over 3 nights  240*180 sec total.
Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula and also Known as Barnard 33 is a dark nebula based in the constellation of Orion. The Horsehead Nebula is located on Orions's belt on the left hand star in an HII region known as IC434.The Nebula is located roughly 1375 Ly  away from Earth and is well known and one of the most identifiable targets due to the dark nebula's resemblance to a horse's head (although it also resembles a sea horse's head as well).
The Orion molecular cloud complex contains the black cloud of dust and gas, where star formation is occurring. It is part of the Orion constellation, wich may be seen well in the southern hemisphere's summer evening sky as well as the northern hemisphere's winter evening sky. A deep red color my be seen in color photographs, wich is created ny the neighbouring bright star Sigma Orionis and comes from the ionised hydrogen gas (H) that is primarily behind the nebula. Gases are channelled by magnetic fields out of the nebula and into streams, wich are visible as foreground streaks against the background brightness. The vast cloud's edge is marked by a blazing band of hydrogen gas, and the densities of the stars on either side are noticeably different.
Heavy concentrations of dust are confined into interstellar clouds in the Horsehead Nebula region and the nearby Orion Nebula, resulting in alternating sections of virtually full opacity and transparency. The Horsehead is mostly dark because dense dust  is obscuring the light from the stars behind it. A shadow is cast to the left by the lower portion of the Horsehead's neck. The gaseous complex's visible black nebula is a region of vigorous star formation for " low-mass" stars. Young stars that are still forming can be seen as  bright dots in the Horsehead Nebula's base.
Flame Nebula
The Flame Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion with the designations NGC2024 and Sh2-277. The distance is between 900 and 1500 light years.
The easternmost star in the Belt of Orion, the brilliant star Alnitak fires a powerful ultraviolent beam into the Flame that dislodges electrons from massive hydrogen gas clouds that inhabit it. The recombination of the electrons with ionised hydrogen is the main couse of the glow. The dark network that appers in the middle of the glowing gas is coused by additional dark gas and dust that is present in front of the nebula's liht region. The Flame Nebula is a component of the star- forming Orion molecular cloud complex, which also contains the well-known Horsehead Nebula.

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The Horse and the Flame, Armin Unterwandling