Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO (Mohammed Dawoud)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Canis Major (CMa) · Contains: NGC 2359

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO, Mohammed Dawoud

Powered byPixInsight

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

Powered byPixInsight

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

هذه الصورة لسديم خوذة ثور ( اله الرعد و البرق في علم الاساطير) . يبعد عنا هذا السديم ١٥٠٠٠ سنه ضوئيةو يمتد لمسافة ٣٠ سنه ضوئية في كوكبه الكلب الاكبر. يتكون هذا السديم نتيجة اصطدام الرياح النجمية القوية الناتجة من نجم عالي الطاقة ( يبلغ عشر اضعاف كتلة الشمس ) مع الغازات المحيطة ليجعلها تتوهج في وسط الظلام بهذة الالوان الجميلة. This beautiful emission nebula is about 30 light years across and it lies 15,000 light years away from us in Canis major constellation. The nebula is emerged from the strong interstellar winds that produced from high energetic Wolf-Rayet star. This star is 10 times mass of the Sun and 6 to 10 times hotter. Hence, the interstellar winds energise the surrounding complex molecular clouds to glow in the dark. It resembles helmet with wings like Thor’s Helmet. The God of Thunder & Lightening in Mythology. Gear setup: Celestron Edge HD8 w/0.7 reducer, iOptron GEM45, ZWO 2600MM Cooled @ -10C, ZWO EFW 2”x5, Antlia 3nm Ha and Oiii 2” narrowband filters, Celestron OAG, ZWO 174MM. Captured by APT, PHD 2, Sharpcap pro in Ha 37 x 300sec, Oiii 79 x 300sec subs with total exposure of 9.5 hours. Stacked by APP and Processed in PI, PS & Topaz Denoise. Taken from Bortle 9 class sky.

Cloudy Nights
Suburban Astrophotography
Images from the EdgeHD Series
/r/astrophotography
PixInsight Addicts
Beginners AP
Image the Universe
Narrowband imaging
CMOS Imagers
Cooled Color Cams
QHY268M/ZWO2600M Images

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7496446
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

Thor’s Helmet NGC 2359 in HOO

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information