2023 into 2024 or HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (Niko Geisriegler)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: 50 Ori) · 50 zet Ori · Alnitak · Flame Nebula · Horsehead nebula · IC 431 · IC 432 · IC 434 · IC 435 · NGC 2023 · NGC 2024 · Orion B · Sh2-277 · The star Alnitak (ζ Ori · VdB51

2023 into 2024 or HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

With this image I wish everyone a Happy New Year! Coincidentally, NGC 2023 is right next to NGC 2024, so the object number fits well for this turn of the year from 2023 to 2024.
I was able to integrate the NIR data into the luminance channel for the first time in this image. This gave me an increase in contrast and had a positive effect on the noise.
The most noticeable structures on NGC 2023 emerged again at the western edge.
I find the image without IR data, i.e. the LumIR RGB, much more beautiful and natural. But the image with the narrowband data is also much more bright.
The strange reflections on the larger stars only occur in the IR images, but I don't find them disturbing.
It is somehow characteristic of infrared.

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Title: Annotated with CCD Guide

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Title: LumIRRGB Data without Narrowband Data

Description: I mixed the NIR Data (collected with the Baader IR Pass 685nm Filter) with the Luminance Data.

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Title: NIR Channel

Description: 2 Hours of Near Infrared signal collected with the Baader IR Pass 685 nm

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RA (center)	05h41m43s.702
RA (top/left)	05h39m54s.976
RA (top/right)	05h40m11s.854
RA (bottom/right)	05h43m32s.286
RA (bottom/left)	05h43m15s.694

Dec (center)	-02°02′03″.42
Dec (top/left)	-01°25′07″.68
Dec (top/right)	-02°41′40″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	-02°38′58″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	-01°22′22″.97

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