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NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet, Joshua Koplik
NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet, Joshua Koplik

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet

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NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet, Joshua Koplik
NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet, Joshua Koplik

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet

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Thor's Helmet has been a target on my list for years but with my scope in upstate New York I'd never been able to image it. Over the past year and a half I have been working to build an observatory in South-East Arizona and I finally have the horizons and the skies to shoot such a southern target.  Even at 31 degrees, Thor was never visible for more than a couple hours, so acquisition happened little by little over many weeks and in the end I was quite happy to have a little more than 80 hours of data.

I worked with @Charles Hagen to approximate a natural color distribution from the Ha and Oiii data and used his independent starless processing technique to process this data.

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NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet, Joshua Koplik