NGC2359-Thor's Helmet

Hello,

I grabbed a bit of Ha on this before my weather went sour so thought I would post it.

Like the Bubble Nebula it is the result of a super hot Wolf-Rayet star shedding it's outer layers of gas,I find it a very fascinating subject.Much more expansive than I thought.I just picked up some of the outer material with my small scope.

Hopefuly my skies will clear up soon so I can get the LRGB before it's too late!

This is 10,15 minute subs taken in poor seeing combined in CCDStack and lightly deconvolved.Levels,curves and some tweaking with the shadow-highlight tool in Photoshop.

Reduced to 60% full size.

TMB115 at F7
St10xme
1200gto
6Nm Ha

Thanks for looking,

Jason

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Nice object and good capture. I like all the different arms and other features.

hi Jasonm,

impressive result for a rather short exp time on that difficult object.

Great shot Jason! 8)
And yes, it is a beautiful & very fascinating object indeed...

Keep up the good work!

Not bad for a short run, Jason! As far as getting RGB data, the way I see it, if you don't get it this time around, it'll be around next year so you can gather the RGB then. That's what I like about this hobby. The challenge is getting around to process that data!

And of course, if the star goes SN before you gather the RGB, ah well...... 8O

Eric

Sweet image Jason! You managed to capture some nice detail in the extended areas. This one is on my "to do" list for sure. My problem is that I can't get a clear sky to work with. DANG! :C
Cheers,
Tyler

Very nice, Jason.

Looks like your wish for clears skies will come true tonight.