Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Canis Major (CMa)  ·  Contains:  IC 468  ·  LBN 1040  ·  LBN 1041  ·  NGC 2359  ·  PGC 136794  ·  Sh2-298
NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet, JuergenB
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NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet, JuergenB
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NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet

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NGC 2359, a famous Wolf-Rayet-Nebula in Canis Major is one of the objects in the winter skies which is hardly accessible from my home. Instead trying with my own gear, I booked telescope time at the Telescope Live organization, using a 500 mm Newtonian located at Chile. I chose narrowband filters ([OIII] and H-alpha) for the nebula itself and RGB filters for the stars, which were inserted into a starless H-alpha[OIII][OIII] pseudo-RGB composite.

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NGC 2359 - Thor's Helmet, JuergenB