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Flame Nebula, HII-region in Orion ( NGC2024 ) Size: 30' x 30' Magnitude: 0.00 RA: 05:40:42 DEC: 00:27:00 Best obeserved in December at midnight Scope: Orion ShortTube Refractor piggy-backed on Meade LX-200 Refractor (3.15inch / fl=400mm ) Imaging Method: prime focus Camera/CCD: Starlight Xpress MX5C Location: 110deg 45min 00sec west 32deg 10min 00sec north, Tucson, AZ ( Shot from the backyard of my house.) Condition: Seeing: good - Transparency: good Exposure: 300.00 Description: LX200 in POLAR ALIGN Mode, exposure manually guided. 3ea 05 min exposures, combined with MX5C SW. Photographer: Alfredo Garcia, Jr. (Lt Col, USAF Retired), 01.01.2002 photo ranked: 2.52 with 25 votes (not realtime, last updated: 13.11.2009 12:50) References to more Photos: More of Flame Nebula, HII-region in Orion ( NGC2024 )   More of Starlight Xpress MX5C   More of Orion ShortTube Refractor piggy-backed on Meade LX-200 Refractor (3.15inch / fl=400mm )   More of Alfredo Garcia, Jr. (Lt Col, USAF Retired)   More of prime focus If you want to judge the quality of that photo, please... (Be fair and take into account that faint and small objects are more difficult than bright and big ones!) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] © 1997 - 2010 astroscopic labs for design and web programming - photo or article is copyrighted by the photographer or author, respectively