ROAD MAP TO ORION - WHERE IS IT - WHAT IS IT - CLICK HERE

Flame Nebula in infra red





Above is a portrait of orion, the flame nebula and horsehead upper left, orion trapezium lower center. In this photo there is a sizeable overlay of bright stars from foreground space between here and orion, usually intervening stars are filtered out of telescope photos as much as possible. In this case, the star overlay makes a more intriguing picture as long as it is understood that none of the stars are actually at orion the dpi (size) of the photo is far too low in resolution to show stars as far away as nearby orion, except for big star Zeta Orionis nudged against the inside of the Flame nebula.

See amazing horsehead nebula migration trail out of the flame nebula.

ORION ROADMAP

Dss archive black and white of giant star Zeta Orionis contains main orion features except for the trapezium (off screen lower right - see trapezium's location in color view above). The tip of the horsehead pokes up from the bottom in the next image.



The Orion roadmap continues. At the top in grey is nebulous Ngc 2023 and to the right the smaller Ngc 2034. Giant star Zeta Orionis is shown in blue, one of the orion belt stars. To the left, the Flame Nebula. The snout of the horsehead is shown in red peeking up from the bottom of the picture. The unamed nebulous to the left of the horsehead is still unamed - no one, it seems, in professional astronomy, wants to reveal the name of this bright conglomerate.

Orion is missnamed and commonly misconstrued by astronomy professionals and journalistic pros alike. (Journalist pros are those who work in journalism for a living, writing anything they can and making money by it. The rest are those who refer to 'orion' without bothering to note where the finger to 'orion' is actually pointing.

Orion is a zodian area in the night sky called Orion, within which are found the intensly bright stars forming Orion's belt, the so-called 'trapezium', and the horsehead nebula.

In the right side, the next view are not the stars that make up the belt in the orion mythical figure. The Trapezium is most commonly catalogued as M42.



The blue nebula to the right is officially catalogued as Ngc 1977. It is in fact a power pole of opposite authority to the trapezium, both together are a giant gravitation pullmotor with multiple poles which can be easily seen. The pullmotor's interfacing graviton resided between the two where the clusster of small upcups lift up from where the cowling swirls out in a high arc to the right.



Separate from the stars forming the mythical god named 'orion's' belt, the 'trapezium' is a glom of particularly intensly hot new star birth formations including super giant hot blue new stars, and is easily seen by telescopes amateur and professional alike, even back yard enthusiasts with good high power binocculars can see the trapezium.

The trapezium is actually a long thick cavitous bulge canted on a slant angle receeding into the north/west.



Somewhat separated by a noticable gap in distance is the horsehead, commonly said also to be orion but this is not the case the horsehead is a separate phenomena having genesis in counterparts modelled correctly in such as the incredible Cone nebula.

The horsehead includes of course the horsehead- a nebulous projection which happens to look by incredible co-incidence very like a horse but not horsey coralled in your back 40 acres, this is a head which looks almost exactly like the upper torso and head of a seahorse.



See details on how the Horsehead created the Flame Nebula.

THE FLAME NEBULA - NGC 2024

Very nearby but detached, is the famous 'flame nebula' so under described and overlooked it is seemed by most people to be orion itself, because of the horsehead nearby, but this is not the case. The 'flame nebula' is not in any way connected to the 'trapezium' and in no way connects to the stars in the belt of orion, except for the powerful giant blue radiant star named 'Zeta' one of the strongest radiators in the heavens, the star 'zeta' is almost invariably shown by astronomers and journalist mistakers as 'orion' but otherwise is merely one of the stars in orion's belt. It (zeta orionis) is most usually shown connected to the horsehead but no actual direct connection actually exists connecting zeta to the horsehead.
The horsehead is a 'pillar', plowing through dense media causing what is now known as the 'flame nebular' and continuing on intact as what is now known as a 'pillar'. The pillar signature of the 'horsehead' in unmistakable - a base with deepset fractal cavity, at right angles to along projecting tounge usually with a nest of very hot new stars at the pillar' tip. The horsehead does not seem to have a 'nest' of super hot new giant stars, suggesting any if the horsehead had any were stripped from the horsehead in plowing into the breaches and depths sailing through the dense mass glom now known as the 'flame nebula'.

The Flame Nebula is of particular interest here in this horsehead page in visitastronomy.com because it can be shown that its source of bright and mighty powers is by cause of a pillar named the horsehead, plowing through extra dense matter causing excitements galor to turn abruptly on, causing the phenomena currently known as the 'flame nebula' right in the region where exists the 'horsehead' nebula.

If you have been able to follow the 'factums' in the above five paragraphs, you will have done well. Give a few seconds of thought to the researcher (amateur) who went through the troubles ferriting though the obfuscated and confused facts professionally proferred as orion detailed, to bring to you in one short set of facts in six parfagraphs, the actual tale of centuries and earth historic eons called orion. Lets face it, the whole of the egyptian pharo and embalming theosophy has been centered around orion- the stars in the belt in a pattern matching the first made pyramids, a god named osirus from orion commanding the pyramids to the built, and so on.

As for me, I was satisfied in being able to separate the horsehead from the trapezium, learning the name of the horsehead nearby called the flame nebula, and separating both from the stars in the belt of orion, and separating orion itself as a constellational area in the sky astronomers like to use to identify their best orion 'images'. -GM



Even in the low resolution of this flame/horsehead view it is clear that the horsehead is at the end of an arc which sweeps around back up cleaving right through the center of the flame nebula. There should be no doubt that the two are related, that the horsehead sailing through cleaved what is now the flame nebula.

Zeta is the large bright star overhanging the flame nebula.





Another common misconception is that the orion belt stars are associated with orion, they are not. Orion complex is grouped further out left in this next photo, a leonid meteor streaking by.







The whole question of 'the belt' is strictly a question of constellation, a large area in the zodiac sky called orion, orion itself is a small cluster of associated nebulas each a distinctly different characteristic.

Alnitak's fast migratory path is seen in the light of excited hydrogen gas (red). Image by Gendler



From the looks of things the yellow Flame nebula is also migratory plowing in from the north west. Two bow waves heaved up create a scupting along either side of the smaller Globe nebula M78 sitting within a wave trough at the top of the picture

The Trapezium's blast migratory path is also seen in the light of excited hygrogen gas as the Trapezium pullmotor emerges from dense sundry matter overcasting to the left



Orion stars chart



Cross references
Cowling.htm   Flame.htm   Trios.htm   Globe.htm   Horse.htm   Horse-1.htm   Orion.htm   Orion1.htm   Proplyds.htm  Trapeze.htm

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