Object	NGC 2024
Scale	3.54 arc-secs/pixel
North angle	8.72°
Date	09/30/00
Location	Lockwood Valley, CA
Equipment	TeleVue 101, ST7E, GM8
Processing	40 x 10 Sec. Gamma Stretch and DDP
Notes	Very bright star in field lead to short exposures and resulted in very noisy grabs.
Background	NGC2024 is a red imission nebula lying approxamately 1,500 light years distant and is part of the large Orion cloud centered around M42. The glow in the lower right of the image is from my CCD camera saturating on exposure of the mag 1.5 star Zeta Orionis (Alnitak), the Eastern most of Orion's belt stars. It is cropped out in this image. The nebula glows due to it's proximaty and interactions with Alnitak.