Object: The Flame Nebula
Exposure: Single 45 minute exposure
Processing: Film processed at PDQ in Las Cruces and negative scanned with an HP Scanjet 4470c
Telescope: Meade 10" LX200 @ f/6.3
Guiding: 201XT using 3x Barlow with a piggybacked ST80 f/5 refractor
Camera: Pentax K1000 @ Prime Focus
Film: 35mm Kodak Royal Gold 400
Location: Upham, NM
Date: 02/7/02
Comments: This is the Flame Nebula (NGC-2024) in the Constellation Orion. The bright adjacent star is zeta Orionis, the left-most star in Orion's belt.

© Dave Dockery 2002.