Horsehead Nebula + NGC 2024 Flame Nebula.
Distance : probably 1600 Lightyears.
1900 Sec RGB Exposure - guided by Tine, Marcus and Rune - Jan 03, 2001. Weather conditions - poor - high clouds coming in - moon 50%.
This famous Nebula region is placed around the very bright Orion Belt star called Zeta Orionis.
Amtsgymnasiets Astronomy Page
Recent projects to follow :
Peter : homemade CCD spectrograph analysis of solar spectra
Rune : Amateur Detection of Cepheides within the Andromeda Galaxy - classical work on Distance measurements.
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