NGC2359 (Thor’s Helmet)

NGC2359 (Thor’s Helmet)

Taken: Feb. 4th, 2008 at Area51
Camera: SBIG ST2000 XCM
Telescope: Orion ED80
Mount: Orion Atlas

Twelve 8 minute frames (1.5 hours of exposure)
Calibration, Alignment and Stacking with CCD Stack
Cropping to the subject, stretching and finish work in PhotoShop.

This object is much smaller than how it is listed in “The Sky” software – I want to shoot it again with my 9.25 SCT because I will be able to use the full frame from the CCD chip using that OTA instead of needing to crop the image to show off the subject as I did with the ED80. I have also posted an uncropped version so you can see what I mean. The Sky said this image should almost fill the field of view with the 80mm scope – it was very wrong about that.