Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Orion (Ori)  ·  Contains:  13.04  ·  150 Nuwa  ·  IC 2159  ·  Monkey Head Nebula  ·  NGC 2174  ·  NGC 2175  ·  Sh2-252
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174, Francesco
Powered byPixInsight

The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174, Francesco
Powered byPixInsight

The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

The 29th and 30th of January we finally had 2 clear nights.

The first night I took 50 exposures a 300 seconds of the Jellyfish before the nebula disappeared behind the trees.

The second night I planned to take more subframes of the same object, but due to clouds, I lost almost two hours of framing time. So I opted for the bright Monkey head that could allow me to get some decent result even with few subframes instead of collect some few more of the Jellyfish that would make little difference if added to the 50 from the night before.

Unfortunately I took 300s exposure for The Monkey head too, even if shorter exposure of 180s would have been more than enough. So, the stars were burned out and were quite elongated due to a bit bad guiding to the south.

I hesitated to upload this image 'cause I thought it was not worth it, but then I thought "...well it's not a beauty contest and monkeys are not known for their beauty...." ;-) so here you have my version of this bright nebula ;-)

Clear skies!

Comments

Revisions

  • The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174, Francesco
    Original
  • Final
    The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174, Francesco
    B

B

Description: Reprocessed from screech. Star reduction with help of StarXterminator.

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

The Monkey Head nebula / NGC 2174, Francesco

In these public groups

ASI 071 mcc