IC 2177 - better known as The Seagull Nebula - is an emission nebula located about 3,650 light-years away, situated at the borders of the constellations of Monoceros and Canis Major.
This is my second image of 2022 and is the result of only 2 hours and 10 minutes of Narrowband data collected on the nights of March 9 and March 29, 2022.
My first image of Thor's Helmet was taken simultaneously and suffered from the same weather and access to the sky issues that caused a low integration time.
This image was shot with my Askar FRA400 F/5.5 Telescope Platform with the IOptron CEM28 and the ASI1600MM-Pro Camera with Astronomiks 6mm narrowband fitters.
It would seem that events this year have conspired to produce a couple of images with short integration times. Usually, I would shoot for between 9 and 12 hours for such objects. Since this was not possible with these images, I had to up my Pixinsight Processing game to get the best results I could from limited data!
As was the case with my Thor's Helmet image, I was somewhat surprised that the final image came out as well as it did. Don't get me wrong - it is so very far from perfect - but not bad considering the circumstances!
The story of the image and complete processing details can be seen on my website at:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ic2177-seagull-nebulaThanks for looking, and let me know if you have any questions!
CS,
Pat
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