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NGC 2024: Flame (composite)

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The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is priving to be quite an easy target for those impossible nights where there's moon, some cloud or gusty wind. Tonight it was a persistent wind gusting up to 54km/hr. And then the moon rose half way through the 5 exposures to top it off.

However, I am happy with the result. It was a good imaging session considering all, with a nice image to finish.

The arc of light on the right is due to a combination of the telescope's optics and a bright star (Al
The Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) is priving to be quite an easy target for those impossible nights where there's moon, some cloud or gusty wind. Tonight it was a persistent wind gusting up to 54km/hr. And then the moon rose half way through the 5 exposures to top it off.

However, I am happy with the result. It was a good imaging session considering all, with a nice image to finish.

The arc of light on the right is due to a combination of the telescope's optics and a bright star (Alnitak) just out of the field of view.
Camera:SBIG ST7-ME
Aperture:300mm
Date:22nd January 2006
Binning:2x2
This is a web site of photography and astronomy, by Roger Groom in Western Australia. Photographic subjects include Pemberton, Dryandra Woodland Karri Forest, Cape Leeuwin, Ocean Landscapes, Kings Park, El Questro and Emma Gorge, and much more landscape photography.
Astrophotography subjects include The Milky Way, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Orion Nebula, Saucepan Constellation, Southern Cross, Southern Cross and Pointers, Startrails, and much more astrophotography.
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