NGC2174 The Monkey Head Nebula (Barry Wilson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: IC 2159 · NGC 2174 · NGC 2175 · Sh2-252

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NGC2174 The Monkey Head Nebula

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Some relief between weather fronts enabled me to capture enough data for this Hubble palette composition. The data has been captured over a couple of weeks since 30th November, almost sub-by-sub in whatever breaks materialised. Orion traverses above my house and with a neighbouring sycamore tree I only ever have a short window to image. Having a relatively low altitude doesn't help with gradients and seeing either, so I am pleased with the result.

The portrait presentation convinces my brain that I'm looking at the side view of a monkey, with hand to mouth and wavy hair. We do love to seek out patterns . . .

In between Ha capture and SII/OIII capture stormy weather ripped off the central strip of roofing felt on my home observatory! Fortunately when I returned home and saw the damage I had a roll of felt, tacks and bitumen sealer paint in my garage. Thanks to my mate Richard, a couple of hours later and the observatory was back to water tight, just in time for the rain to arrive. Phew.

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RA (center)	06h09m50s.43
RA (top/left)	06h08m08s.26
RA (top/right)	06h11m41s.56
RA (bottom/right)	06h11m33s.45
RA (bottom/left)	06h07m58s.48

Dec (center)	+20°32′25″.4
Dec (top/left)	+19°58′51″.7
Dec (top/right)	+20°00′26″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°05′55″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°04′20″.3

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