Seagull Nebula - IC 2177
The Seagull Nebula is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Monoceros. It lies at an estimated distance of 3800 light years. This complex of cosmic gas and dust clouds glows in the red light of ionized hydrogen and is over 250 light years in diameter.
Technical Details
- Object: Seagull Nebula
- Object Type: Emission Nebula
- Other Names: IC 2177, Gum 1
- Date/Time: 2011 Jan 30 at 06:55 UTC
- Location: Bifrost Astronomical Observatory, Portal, AZ
- Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 180 ED Hyperbolic Astrograph
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1200GTO
- Camera: Canon EOS 550D (Rebel T2i) (modified with a Baader UV/IR filter)
- Exposure: 8 x 300s, f/2.8, ISO 800
- File Name: IC2177-01w.jpg
- Processing: Stack of 8 Images, Crop, Levels, Unsharp Mask (Photoshop CS5)
- Original Image Size: 3454 × 5179 pixels (17.9 MP); 11.5" x 17.3" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2011 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.