Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Gemini (Gem)  ·  Contains:  Gem A  ·  IC 443  ·  IC 444  ·  M 35  ·  Monkey Head Nebula  ·  NGC 2158  ·  NGC 2168  ·  NGC 2174  ·  Part of the constellation Gemini (Gem)  ·  The star 1Gem  ·  The star 3Gem  ·  The star 5Gem  ·  The star 68Ori  ·  The star 71Ori  ·  The star Propus (ηGem)  ·  The star μGem
Gemini's foot and Orion's mace, markleeman
Gemini's foot and Orion's mace
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Gemini's foot and Orion's mace

Gemini's foot and Orion's mace, markleeman
Gemini's foot and Orion's mace
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Gemini's foot and Orion's mace

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On the border between Gemini and Orion one can find a bunch of very pretty objects. This field contains and open cluster from the Messier catalog, M35, at the top right corner. But also a starforming region known as the Monkeyhead nebula (NGC2174, bottom right) and a supernova remnant known als the Jellyfish nebula (IC443, center). On the east (left) the faint nebula IC444 is also visible.

Shot was taken from my backyard, using an astromodified Canon 60D and 200mm lens on a Star Adventurer. It consists of two "panels", both with 4.5h with a 12nm H-alpha clip-in filter, plus 1.5h of RGB data.

Stacking in DSS, processing in photoshop.

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Gemini's foot and Orion's mace, markleeman