Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  IC 468  ·  NGC 2359
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Thor's Helmet,  NGC 2359, Bicolour NB, glend
Thor's Helmet,  NGC 2359, Bicolour NB
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Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359, Bicolour NB

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Thor's Helmet,  NGC 2359, Bicolour NB, glend
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Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359, Bicolour NB

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This is my first attempt at Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359) in Canis Major, about 12,000 LYs away. Thor's Helmet is an Emissions Nebula, and surprisingly rich is Oiii, not so much Ha, and very little Sii.

The image here consists of: 36 x 300sec Ha subs. 30 x 300sec Oiii subs. So total integration time of 5.5 hours . Camera was an ASI1600MM-C running at -25C, Baader Ha and Oiii NB filters, and the scope was a TS Photoline APO 115mm, F7 (reduced to f5.5 for this sequence). Processed in DSS with Darks and Bias Frames, and layer colour processing and stretching was done in Photoshop CC 2017.

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Thor's Helmet,  NGC 2359, Bicolour NB, glend

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ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M