Combination of 5, 3 minute images unfiltered.
SBIG STL-1001E CCD. 20" f/6.8 Dall-Kirkham cassegrain telescope at prime focus.
| Object Type | Nebula |
| Constellation | Orion |
| Magnitude | --- |
| Size | 30.0' x 30.0' |
NGC 2024, number 67 in the Herschel 400 list is the well-known Flame Nebula in Orion. Easily visible in a small telescope, the nebula is situated just to the east of the bright star Alnitak, the eastern star in the belt of Orion. Although the close presence of such a bright star makes it easy to locate the nebula, it can prove to be a problem when trying to observe or image the nebula! In the image above, the bright streak running across the image is not a satellite or meteor, rather it is a diffraction spike from Alnitak which is just out of the field of view to the left.