Wallpaper author:
Marcin Cikała
26 Dec 2025
Christmass Angel Nebula - NGC 2170
A beautiful nebula containing clouds of dark dust, hydrogen emission regions, and blue reflection parts. Located in the constellation of Monoceros, it is stimulated to glow by the nearby star BD-06 1415. One of the most dramatic region on the sky.
The image is composition of LRGB images taken with CHI2CCD scope with only 6x600 sec subs per chanell. Wish to have more...
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2170
3 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Reflection Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 92.07083 Dec -6.43333
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................24 Mar 2022 - 26 Mar 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 600 | 1h | 6 |
| Red | 600 | 1h | 6 |
| Green | 600 | 1h | 6 |
| Blue | 600 | 1h | 6 |