Fear the Beard!!! Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) SHO Hubble Palette RASA8 (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Orion (Ori) · Contains: IC 2159 · LBN 854 · Monkey Head Nebula · NGC 2174 · NGC 2175 · Sh2-252

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Fear the Beard!!! Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) SHO Hubble Palette RASA8

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Fear the Beard!!! Monkey Head Nebula (NGC 2174) SHO Hubble Palette RASA8

I found the Monkey Head nebula to be an interesting target since I first saw it. I became more intrigued when I saw images of the wispy beard type structure on the bottom. Yet, my framing with my 0.7 focal reduced 9.25 SCT was too zoomed in and my RASA was going to give me to wide of a field without good resolution.

Well, with the 294MM adding mono at bin 1x1 at 2.3 um, i was able to double my resolution and still crop in on the object while bringing out the beard and hair like appearance on the bottom and top of the nebula.

This was quick edit while my 3 y/o was napping, so I was experimenting with too many techniques and it shows, but I though it was a cool reedition none the less. I was trying to emphasis the structure components around the nebula's peripheral ring.

I used some tone mapping techniques to pull out some fainter areas. At some point I goofed up the stars, but never figured out what step. Definitely need to redo edit.

The Monkey Head nebula is hydrogen emission nebula located 6,400 light years from earth in the Orion Constellation.

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RA (center)	06h09m55s.51
RA (top/left)	06h07m46s.24
RA (top/right)	06h11m55s.31
RA (bottom/right)	06h12m05s.76
RA (bottom/left)	06h07m54s.37

Dec (center)	+20°37′08″.10
Dec (top/left)	+19°56′09″.4
Dec (top/right)	+19°54′39″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°18′01″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°19′35″.0

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