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The Horsehead and Flame Nebulae. Lot’s of room for improvement on this image.  Cloudy months in western PA obscured this amazing section of the orion constellation from me this winter. I would like to do a multiple night session on this region but I only had a few hours before it set over the neighbors roof. This image is only 2.5 hours of 6 minute subs.

2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) and the Horsehead Nebula (appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434). I'll have to revisit this at another time for a new image set, as clouds moved in to limit my integration time, and neighbors whose house this rises over had a back porch spotlight on, causing a lot of ghosting in the lower right corner. William Optics Gran Turismo 81 IV (480mm focal length, F/5.9) w/6AIII x0.8 flattener (total effective focal length with flattener is 384mm, F/4.7), Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro mount, Nikon D5100. 29 x 180 second lights (1 hour 27 minutes total integration), 10 darks, 10 bias. ISO 1600. Stacked in Astro Pixel Processor, post processed in Abobe Photoshop Express and Paintshop Pro X7. 11/16/2020. #astroimaging #astrophotography #skyandtelescope #nightskyphotography #nebulae #nikon #williamoptics #flamenebula #horseheadnebula (at Westminster, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIIDDn6Hmce/?igshid=1b2bu27aipyzs

Credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

#Repost @mrmoongoon ・・・ ✈️ passing through Orion #astrophotography #astronomy #orion #orionsbelt #orionnebula #flamenebula #nebula #sky #nightsky #night #constellations #milkyway #plane #longexposure #jet #lighttrails #aviationphotography #space

Two striking areas of nebulosity in the Orion molecular cloud complex. The Flame Nebula is a bright area of glowing hydrogen overlaid with clouds of dark dust and gas. The distinctive Horsehead comprises dark areas of dust silhouetted by the light from stars behind it. To the lower left of it is a reflection nebula, NGC 2023. The most brilliant star is Alnitak, one of the three that make up Orion's Belt.

The Flame Nebula, is a hot glowing cloud in the Belt of Orion constellation. The bright star in the foreground is flooding the region with ultraviolet light, and that energizes the Frame Nebula. The Flame Nebula is part of the vast Orion Molecular Cloud Complex which fills the southern sky on a midwinter evening, but is too faint for casual observation. At 900 light years distance, it is very close on a galactic scale. If it were a large city, we would be living in its suburbs. I photographed the Flame Nebula from my balcony in Strasbourg France, February 2022. #flamenebula #ngc2024 #sh2-277 #orionmolecularcloudcomplex #astronomy #astronomie #astrophotography #astrophotographie #astrophotographiefrance #poussieredetoile #poussièredétoiles (at Strasbourg, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ9trlIsNXR/?utm_medium=tumblr

Alnitak Complex - Flame Nebula and Horsehead Nebula in the Orion constellation, Sułoszowa, Poland , March 2021