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ngc2024 (Flame Nebula)
Object Notes:
  • Constellation: Orion
  • Location: RA: 05h 41m 54.0s Dec: -01d 51' 00" Epoch 2000
  • Size: 30 x 30 arc-minutes
  • Type: Diffuse Nebula
  • AKA: Cedarblad 55P
Instrument:
Ritchey-Chretien 32" Telescope
Focal Ratio:
f7.2 (prime focus)
Film:
Kodak E200 (Pro) 35mm Slide Film (unhypered)
Exposure:
120 minutes
Camera:
Nikon F4 (with DW21 6x finder and type M focusing screen)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Custom camera/guider/telescope adapters made by PreciseParts.
Guiding:
Off-Axis with STV Autoguider (Santa Barbara Instrument Group)
(See product review in May, 2003 issue of Astronomy magazine.)
See Photo/Guiding Equipment.
Date:
1/17/04
Post Processing:
Photographic Grain smoothed with Alex Mellinger's bgsmooth program.