IC2177 & vdB93

 

     IC2177 is the broad sweeping emission nebula across the lower half of the image and the brighter bluish nebula above (vdB93) is a mixture of emission and reflection nebula with a distinctive dust lane only visible through larger scopes with narrow band filters.  This grouping is found in the constellation Monoceros.

 
 
Optics Camera ISO Exposure Mount/Guiding Processing Location Date
TEC 140 @ 5.2 Canon Rebel XT (350D) modified; Type 1a filter 800 16 x 10 min G11; ST4 through SV70ED Dark Subtract & stack in DeepSkyStacker; Levels & Curves in PS7 Koehn Lake, CA 2/13/10

Comments: Clear skies.  Good seeing.