NGC 2174 - The Monkey Head Nebula - 5.1 hours SHO

by Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)

Objects in field: Monkey Head Nebula, NGC 2174, NGC 2175, IC 2159, LBN 854, Sh2-252

Equipment: Astro-Physics StarFire EDT 130mm f/8.35, ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Integration: 5h 10m

This is my first image processed for the year. This resulted in data collected back in late October of last year. Those long fall nights left me with a few spare hours of darkness once my primary target had set for the evening. So, never wanting to waste dark, clear skies, I added a secondary target to use up a few spare hours of darkness that remained. The target is NGC 2174 - The Monkey Head…