| The Horse Head Nebula
taken from my urban driveway.
Conditions were not great with the wind gusting to 40 KPH causing some
guiding issues. According to Wikipedia - The Horse head Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434. The Horse head Nebula is approximately 422 parsecs or 1,375 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head. Click on the image to see a higher resolution version and click again to return to this page. |
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