Telescope: Astro-Physics 092 Stowaway	Description:The Horsehead and Flame Nebulas.The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 or B33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion molecular cloud complex.It 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. The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 1,375 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head. The nebula was discovered by Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming in 1888 on a photographic plate taken at the Harvard College Observatory. The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula about 900 to 1,500 light-years away. The bright star Alnitak (? Ori), the easternmost star in the Belt of Orion, shines energetic ultraviolet light into the Flame and this knocks electrons away from the great clouds of hydrogen gas that reside there. Much of the glow results when the electrons and ionized hydrogen recombine. Additional dark gas and dust lies in front of the bright part of the nebula and this is what causes the dark network that appears in the center of the glowing gas. (Wiki).
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1600 GTO	Constellation: Orion
Camera: ZWO ASI 2600 One shot color camera.	Remotely Imaged With CCD Commander.
Guiding:UnGuided	Type: Nebula.
Exposure Data: 116, 1 minute Unguided sub-exposures.	Position: R.A. 05h 41m 54s Dec -01° 51' 00"
Processed using Maxim data aquisition, PixInsight and PhotoShop image processing	Date: February 2024
Data Acquisiton, Reduction and Processing by Jim Janusz	Imaging Location: Maor Observatory at Whitetail Hollow