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Thor's Helmet in HOO (Starless), Tom Dinneen

Thor's Helmet in HOO (Starless)

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Thor's Helmet in HOO (Starless), Tom Dinneen

Thor's Helmet in HOO (Starless)

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Thor's Helmet (NGC2359) in HOO with RGB stars. 4hrs of Ha (48x5min), 4hrs of OIII (48x5min) and an hour of RGB (20x1min each) for the stars. Taken with my 5" refractor (0.7x reducer, f/5.25 625mm) and ASI2600MM from a remote observatory in Northern Spain (Bortle 3).

It's around 11,000 light away in the constellation of Canis Major. It's an emission nebula with a central Wolf-Rayet star, similar to The Bubble Nebula.

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Thor's Helmet in HOO (Starless), Tom Dinneen