Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  IC 468  ·  NGC 2359
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NGC2359 Thor's Helmet, Andrew Lockwood
NGC2359 Thor's Helmet
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NGC2359 Thor's Helmet

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NGC2359 Thor's Helmet, Andrew Lockwood
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NGC2359 Thor's Helmet

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The winds from the Wolf Rayet HD56295 are sculpting this bubble out of the interstellar medium at ~12,000 light years away.

This image is a RGBHaOIII composite taken over two nights from suburban Perth.

The narrowband images are each 12 sub frames of 15 minutes each, and tthe RGB are 5 minutes each.

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NGC2359 Thor's Helmet, Andrew Lockwood