ScienceDownEast | ScienceDownEast Astrophotography | Recent Images | NGC_2359 Thor's Helmet2
NGC2359 Thor's Helmet is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is about 12 thousand light years away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution..
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Total image time was 2 hours.
| Exposure | 6x20 min. | ||||||||
| ISO | 3200 | ||||||||
| Camera | Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504] | ||||||||
| Optics | 120mm Skywatcher Esprit on a Celestron CGX mount | ||||||||
| Guiding | ZWO ASI224MC using Phd2 | ||||||||
| Controller | Kstars on MeLe Quieter 3C | ||||||||
| Filter | Triad Quad Ultra | ||||||||
| Location | Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. | ||||||||
| Date | 2023-03-21 | ||||||||
| Processing | Processed in PixInsight. |
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| Further processing in Lightroom |
