Horsehead & The Flame Nebulas - a photo on Flickriver

            It has been quite a while since I did any deepsky images - the attraction of the planets proved too much!
I managed to set up my deepsky system last week and had a few  trial runs to see if I could remember what was what!

This image of the beautiful nebulous region around Alnitak, the first (leftmost star) in Orion's belt, was captured last Friday the 20th January. Imaged in bitter cold conditions just before clouds encroached which heralded the arrival of milder but cloudy Atlantic air. The image shows the dark Horsehead nebula with the bright bluish grey reflection nebula NGC 2023 to its bottom left.

The brighter Flame Nebula, NGC 2024 or Sh2-277, an emission nebula, lies below bright star Alnitak in the image.

Imaged with my Esprit 120ED fitted with a field flattener and a ZWO 2600MC camera.

60x180s Gain 100 and Temp -10°C

Temp. matched darks with flats and dark flats for calibration.

Processed using Astropixel Processor and Photoshop 2023.

Thanks for looking!

Taken on: January 24, 2023

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