NGC 2024 Bright Nebula in Orion
Located at: RA 05 hours 41 minutes 39 seconds, Dec -01 degrees 48 minutes 00 seconds
Size: 30' x 20'; Magnitude: --; Class: Emission
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.51 |
| Image: |
RED (Hoya 25A) filter, 125 minutes (25 x 5 minute subs) 03/02/2006 |
| Processing: |
MaxIm DL 4.53, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s |
| Notes: |
This image has Zeta Orionis (Alnitak) in the field. I couldn't get ride of the 'blooming' artifacts', even with Rod Wodaski's DeBloomer plug-in for MaxIm DL, although the north-south 'fan' might be a reflection from the cheap Hoya filter(?) |