Wallpaper author:
Jan Scheers
04 Feb 2022
Seagull's Nebula
NGC 2327 is known as the Seagull's Head, located in the Seagull Nebula IC 2177.
It is a large region of nebulosity: you can recognize emission nebula (red HII star-forming region), reflection nebula (blue hues) and semi-dark dust lanes.
Image was acquired with CHI-1, data from 5 one-clicks.
Total integration time: 200 minutes
LHaRGB 4 subs of 600s with each filter.
FOV 32' x 32' (0.68"/px)
Processing with .
More info and pictures can be found in www.nachthemel.be/IC2177.html
Dataset from which the image was processed
Sh 2-292
5 credit
- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI ProLine PL9000
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 106.1042 Dec -10.45
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................10 Dec 2020 - 08 Jan 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 1133 | 2h50m | 9 |
| Luminance | 450 | 1h | 8 |
| Red | 450 | 1h | 8 |
| Green | 450 | 1h | 8 |
| Blue | 450 | 1h | 8 |