Zdobienie / Decoration

Tag: NGC 2024

Zdobienie / Decoration
NGC 2024

NGC 2024 – Flame Nebula

Emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It’s around 1,500 ly away from Earth. The shape looks like a fired flame or a torch with an angular diameter of about 0.5 °, visible in the sky near the star Alnitak. The Flame Nebula has a reddish hue in visible light, which is due to the glow of hydrogen atoms at the ends of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud about 1,500 light-years from Earth. Ionized hydrogen atoms glow, during the recombination process (recombination of electrons and atomic nuclei).

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B33,M42,M78,NGC 1977,NGC 2024

M 42 / B 33 / NGC 1977 / NGC 2024 / M 78

Compared to amateur telescopes, it is literally a wider look with the 200 [mm], F 2.8 lens at a group of objects in the Bernard’s Loop. However the loop itself is not visible on picture (caught small piece in the lower left corner – red cloud), and the main subject of the photo are objects, like the well known M42 nebula in Orion. Next to left NGC 1977 – The Running Man with his small group of stars.

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