NGC2175, The Monkey's Head Nebula, In Orion
November 14, 2013 at 8:02 pm
(This post was last modified: November 14, 2013 at 8:02 pm by orogenicman.)
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This is my third attempt at processing this image. I rotated it 180 degrees because I think it looks better that way. Then I worked on bringing out more of the faint nebulosity along the upper fringes, and improving the color. As a final touch, I increased the contrast slightly. Enjoy:
Image:
24 x 300sec = 2 hours of total exposure at ISO 800
Image acquisition on November 8, 2013 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James baker Center for Astronomy, in Curby, Indiana.
NGC 2175 The Monkey's Head Nebula
The Money's Head Nebula is in reality a huge cloud of Hydrogen gas with a large open star cluster inside. It is the open star cluster that has the designation NGC 2175. The nebula's designation is Sharpless 2-252. The star cluster inside the nebula was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently discovered by Bruhns. NGC 2175 is at a distance of about 6,350 light years away from Earth. The star cluster can easily be seen during the Winter months in the Constellation of Orion, but the nebula is almost invisible to visual searches by telescope.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
