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Barnard 33 and NGC 2024 The Horse Head and Flame Nebula
Imaged by
Martin S. Ferlito copyright
Film Photography
8" SCmidt-Cassegrain on Vixen GP Mount,
Stepper Driven.
Prime Focus @ f/6.3 2X 30 minutes exposures using
Fuji
Provia 400F unguided exposure.
Information provided by seds.or
E. Pickering detected IC 434 photographically in 1889, the Horse head can be
detected on a photo made on January 25, 1900 by Isaac Roberts (Roberts 1902).
E.E. Barnard recognized the object in the 1910s.
The first published description of the Horsehead Nebula was given in Barnard
(1913), and it was first cataloged by Barnard (1919).
The remarkable Horsehead is a dark globule of dust and
non-luminous gas, obscuring the light coming from behind, especially the
moderately bright nebula IC 434. It is the most remarkable feature of an interesting
region of diffuse nebulae, which belongs to a huge cloud of gas and dust
situated 1,600 light years away in the direction of constellation Orion. The
bright reflection nebula in the lower left is NGC 2023
