NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

An emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major; about 12,000 light-years away. Consists largely of interstellar gas swept up by the central star, and partly of material from the star itself, which is an extremely hot, massive Wolf-Rayet star in a short-lived pre-supernova stage.

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Filename:	NGC2359_20220123_LRGB1D.jpg
Album name:	27telp / Nebulae
Location and Date:	OCA Site near Anza, California, 1/23/2022
Equipment:	Image capture with Celestron C-11 scope @f/6.3 on Astro-Physics 1200 GTO mount, ZWO ASI1600MM camera with Astrodon filters; guiding with Mini-Borg 50 and Starlight Xpress Ultrastar guide camera
Settings:	Luminance, Red, Green and Blue - 10 exposures each @5 minutes, bin 1x1
Notes:	Image capture software - Sequence Generator Pro, guiding with PHD2; calibration, stacking and final processing with PixInsight, Adobe Photoshop CC and Russell Croman's StarShrink plugin
Filesize:	3261 KiB
Date added:	Feb 02, 2022
Dimensions:	1976 x 1540 pixels
Displayed:	233 times
Color Space:	sRGB
EXIF Offset:	172
EXIF Version:	version 2.31
Resolution Unit:	Inch
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 11.1 (Windows)
X Resolution:	240 dots per ResolutionUnit
Y Resolution:	240 dots per ResolutionUnit
URL:	http://www.slithergadee.net/coppergallery/displayimage.php?pid=1663
Favorites:	Add to Favorites

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Event Horizon - Astronomical and Terrestrial Images

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

An emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major; about 12,000 light-years away. Consists largely of interstellar gas swept up by the central star, and partly of material from the star itself, which is an extremely hot, massive Wolf-Rayet star in a short-lived pre-supernova stage.