Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  IC 2177  ·  LBN 1027  ·  LBN 1033  ·  LBN 1035  ·  NGC 2327  ·  NGC 2335  ·  NGC 2343  ·  PK223-02.1  ·  Sh2-292  ·  Sh2-296  ·  VdB91  ·  VdB92  ·  VdB95
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Seagull Nebula (Simulated SHO), Clint Lemasters
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Seagull Nebula (Simulated SHO)

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Seagull Nebula (Simulated SHO), Clint Lemasters
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Seagull Nebula (Simulated SHO)

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The Seagull Nebula (IC 2177)
Took this image over a course of three nights from my backyard in Mobile, AL. The image is a combination of 175 three minute sub exposures. Image processed in normal (redder image) and simulated SHO palette (more colors).

"Astronomers catalog the nebula as IC 2177. This cosmic cloud is one of many sites of star formation within the Milky Way galaxy. It is located 3,800 light-years away from Earth, inside the Orion spur -- the same partial spiral arm of the Milky Way where our solar system is located. The nebula is nearly 240 light-years across.
Astronomers list the region near the seagull's eye (or lizard's hip) as NGC 2327, which contains a cluster of stars born about 1.5 million years ago. The eye is the brightest and hottest of the newborn stars in the entire nebula, and heats up the dust so that it glows in infrared light." - NASA/JPL-CALTECH/UCLA

Z61
GEM45
ASI533MC Pro
L-Extreme
Askar OAG
ASI290MM Mini
NINA/PixInsight/EZProcessingSuite/TopazAIDenoise

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Seagull Nebula (Simulated SHO), Clint Lemasters