January 30, 2011

NGC 2174, the Monkey Head Nebula (1-2011)

I was able to take OIII subs this week. Combined with the Ha and mapped to more or less natural color, the nebula now looks like this. The OIII subs were 24x7' taken with the Atik 16 through the 120mm + WO 0.8x II ff/fr = f/4 achromat and Astronomik Ha [+NII] and OIII filters. Here is the OIII data:

2 comments:

RoryG said...

It gets better and better! But I still don't see a monkey head. All I keep seeing is a bird. Where is the monkey???

RoryG said...

I see it! I see it! I finally see the monkey head!!! I guess watching all of that Curious George with Patrick is paying off...