NGC 2359, Thor's Helmet in different light

[bluedandelion]

NGC 2359 or Thor's Helmet is an emission nebula in Canis Major.

Data for this image was taken with two 1m telescopes (1m-04 and 1m-05) at CTIO (Cerro Tololo, Chile) operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network.

For this image I used publicly available data from the LCOGT Science Archive. The following filters were used: 

R for Red (21x5 mins), V for Green (21x5 mins) and B for Blue (21x5 mins). W band data (21x5 mins) was also mixed into the Luminance channel. Colors in this image are not a true RGB representation.  This picture is at 63% of the original resolution.  

Thanks for looking.

Ajay

[Ruud]

Magnificent - and what a wonderful gallery!

Thanks for posting such great work.

[soundwave]

Wow, I flicked through the gallery and forgot that I'm not looking at pictures from Hubble... Amazing photos!

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Ruud and Itai

Can't take all the credit. Some of the images were made with high quality data from large telescopes.

Ajay

[symesie04]

Stunning image, very delicate.

[bluedandelion]

Stunning image, very delicate.

Thank you.

Ajay

[toxic]

what a really nice image thumbs up 

[Davey-T]

Lovely image Ajay, thanks for posting, I've had a go at this target a few times over the years but it's always quite low down from my location so can't get very good data, nice to see what is really there if only I could capture it.

Dave

[Maximidius]

well done and congrats 

[bluedandelion]

Thank you Chris, Dave and Maximidius.

Ajay