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B22 & B14 The Little Flame in Taurus
IC 348 Star Birth Region
IC 405 Details in the Flaming Star Nebula
IC 405 Flaming Star Nebula (Image of the Day in Astrobin 12/12/2015)
IC 405 HaLRGB Flaming Star Nebula (Image of the day in Astrobin 12/09/2015)
IC417 Spider Nebula in Auriga
IC 434 on two HaLRGB Panels
IC 434 Horse Head Nebula
IC 434 Horse Head and Flame Nebula
IC 434 Horse Head and Flame Nebula (Image of the day in Astrobin 11/24/2014)
IC 434 Horse Head and Flame Nebula, from San Justo
IC 443 The Jellyfish Nebula Ha-SII-LRGB
IC443 The remnant of a supernova in Geminis.
IC 447 Dreyer Nebula
IC 1318 Gamma Cygni Nebula
Mosaic of IC 1318 and Surroundings (Image of the day in Astrobin 07/01/2015)
NGC 2024- Flame Nebula (Dizzle Combination)
With an object as beautiful as NGC 2024 I wanted to go back and combine each of the channels using the Dizzle 2x stacking technique, this technique was developed by A. Fruchter and R. Hook, this technique is very useful to be able to increase the resolution and details in the image, in this particular case the idea was to enlarge only NGC 2024 and be able to see more details of the clouds of gas and dust that form it.
NGC 2024 is the protagonist, but we cannot ignore the star that floods the image with light, it is Alnitak, it is the easternmost star in Orion's belt. Alnitak is responsible for the hydrogen atoms in the nearby gas clouds being ionized due to the intense ultraviolet radiation it gives off, consequently the gas clouds lose their electrons, when those electrons recombine with the ionized hydrogen, it gives rise to the emission of reddish light. If we look closely we can see how there are several layers of gas and dust that make up the Flame Nebula.
Image Processed in Pixinsight.
Data acquired by Jim and Linda Powell, from the Deep Sky West robotic observatory, between November 7, 2021 and January 9, 2022.
Team:
TEC 180FL Telescope SBIG STXL-16200 Camera
Paramount ME II mount
Astrodon LRGB Tru-Balance E-Series Gen 2 50mm Filter Set.
Accessories:
Starizona Microtouch Autofocuser, Feathertouch Motorized Focuser, SBIG filter wheel STXL-FW8G, Drew buster controller.
Data:
H-Alpha: 21x1800" -20C bin 1x1
Luminance: 48x300" -20C bin 1x1
Blue: 32x600" -20C bin 1x1
Green: 17x600" -20C bin 1x1
Red: 19x600" -20C bin 1x1
Total integration time: 25.8 hours.
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