The Flame Nebula - NGC 2024 in Narrowband
9 hrs integration with RGB stars
Often photographed with it's companion, the Horsehead - B33.
However, to me that classic composition looks very busy, almost too much to look at in one frame - so I'm just focussing on the swirling molecular clouds that make up the flame itself.
This is three hrs of Ha (20min subs) three hrs S2, two hrs O3 (all 5nm astrodons) RGB stars (10x1min ea)
Tone mapped with J-p Metsavainio method and processed in Startools & PS6.
Hope you like it
High res
here
Warning - Astrobin does some wacky thing with colour saturation when it strips off the colour profile - I've attempted to compensate with version "B" but sunglasses may still be required!
