NGC 2023 - Reflection Nebula
NGC 2023 in Orion is a bright reflection nebula and a source of flourescent molecular hydrogen. It's located very close in the sky to The Horsehead Nebula as seen in the below widefield of the above image.
The above images are a color composite collected on 28-29 December 2010 with a SXV-H9 monochrome camera through a William Optics FLT110 4.3" f/7 refractor. A 90-minute luminance exposure was combined with red, green, and blue-filtered exposures of 28, 28, and 20-minutes, respectively.
More information about this object can be found at Wikipedia-NGC 2023.
|
 |
 |
You are visitor to this site.
|
|
