The Monkey Head Nebula (here shown with the small Sh2-247) emits well in all 3 of the common NB filters. This was the first image with the new QHY268M after the light leak issue was fixed. This is from just over 15 hours of data, processed in modified SHO palette (toning down the green from the stronger Hα a little bit) to bring out some nice interacting colors of the signals as they mix together. In order to get the monkey head orientation correct and to include Sh2-247 (with my fixed sensor angle) this ended up as a vertical image...But at least in this orientation, I finally was able to recognize the Monkey Head
As always, comments and critiques most welcome, and thanks for taking a look!
ML
Some details from Wikipedia:
NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula) is an H II[1] emission nebula located in the constellation Orion and is associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175.[1] It is thought to be located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. The nebula may have formed through hierarchical collapse.
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