Horsehead Nebula + NGC 2024 Flame Nebula.

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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.



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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.