NGC 2024 - Flame Nebula (Joe Matthews)

NGC 2024 - Flame Nebula

Revision title: Another View of NGC 2024, IC 434, Barnard 33

Tonight I had about 3 hours of free time and clear sky so I decided on the Flame Nebula NGC 2024. I think my quick edit of the data even with a Full Moon turned out pretty good. I wasn't concentrating, I made an error and didn't realize it until I was about 40 min in, I wanted to try 10 min exposures. I didn't want to start over due to my time window, so for now I will include this image as part of my Orion Project this winter, until another clear night.

The Flame Nebula, Part of the Orion Molecular Cloud.

The Flame Nebula is home to a cluster of several hundred very young stars. 86 percent of these stars have circumstellar disks. The youngest members are concentrated near the cluster’s centre, while the older members lie in the outer regions. This was revealed in a study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope, and the 2MASS telescope, which showed that the stars at the cluster’s centre were only about 200,000 years old, while those in the outer regions were around 1.5 million years old.

Updated Description

2023/06/26 --- Due to weather no bike ride today, I felt like a Pink Floyd afternoon. While Listening to "The dark side of the Moon", I am amazed that it's been 50 years and 3 months since it's release, for some reason I felt like that 18 year old, listening to it for the first time. Anyway I decided to revisit Barnard 33, IC434 aka the Horsehead Nebula, I originally imaged this in January 2023. In the image you will also see NGC 2024 aka the flame nebula, Refection Nebula NGC 2023 about 8'oclock from the Horsehead nebula and IC 435 just south of NGC 2023.

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Title: Another View of NGC 2024, IC 434, Barnard 33

Description: While listening to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon", it blows my mind that the Album is 50 years and 3 months the emotions of my 17 year old self returned. I decided to try another perspective of something I imaged months ago.

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