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From the Flame to Orion

Francisco Javier Pérez Olvera, taken from Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, Mexico

This wide-field view captures a broad swath of the star-forming Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, spanning the Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) to the Orion Nebula (M42). The imager used a 54mm f/4.5 astrograph and dual-band Hα/OIII filter with a one-shot color camera to take 16 hours 40 minutes of exposure.