Friday 8 March 2024

Thor's Helmet

The following images of NC2359. Thor's' Helmet 'was taken on 9 seperate evenings  with additional data added,  an extra  55 minutes using a blue filter, 1 hour using a H Beta filter and 2.5 hours using an O111 filter.  I also used a high pass with an unsharp mask filter to enhance the central detail. Notice the bright star in the centre, a Wolf-Rayet star.

RGB


 Cropped RGB image


Hubble Palette