IC 434 The Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2024 The Flame Nebula in RGB (Ian Parr)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 46 Ori) · 48 Ori · 50 Ori) · Flame Nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Orion B · Part of the constellation Orion (Ori) · The star Alnilam (ε Ori · The star Alnitak (ζ Ori · The star σ Ori

IC 434 The Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2024 The Flame Nebula in RGB, Ian Parr

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IC 434 The Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2024 The Flame Nebula in RGB

IC 434 (Ced 55n) is a magnitude 7.3 bright emission nebula in the constellation Orion with the Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula silhouetted against it. It is about 1,500 light years away.
The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an magnitude 2 emission nebula in the constellation Orion and is about 1,354 light years away and about 30 arcminutes in size.

Summer has arrived but last night was exceptionally cool and clear with great seeing and sky qality hit 20.4 magnitudes per square arcsend, in contrast the previous night where a clear night was ruined by the remarkeably precise and un-timely arrival of low cloud which put a end to the Geminids meteor shower. Sigh. Zip. Nada. Not a single meteor in the hundreds of time lapses I had shot up to that point.

Astroimaging is so character building in the 2st Century. Between record breaking climate change, light pollution and Elon Mush stabbing my images with his infernal satellites maybe time to switch hobbies ... Nah. The RedCat 71 on the AM5 with the ZWO_ASI2600s is just too good and just about the perfect portable rig with a brilliant flat wide field and none of the reflection issues that plague the Televue 127is that makes this field with Alnitak close to unusable. But away from bright stars the 127is' resolution @ 1.15 arcseconds per pixel with the QSI690wsg8 is pretty damn good so the two scopes compliment each other nicely and yes, the AM5 can carry that rig too with the mandatory counter weight to stop the mount falling over.

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