IC2177, : The Seagull Nebula. Flying high in our wintertime skies, here i’ve captured this object in a combination of two distinct treatments. SHO (sulfur-2, hydrogen-alpha and oxygen-3) also known as the ‘Hubble Palette’ – a way of mapping deep-space objects wavelengths to a format for the human eye. See below for another version that excludes the blue oxygen-3 and shows more of the subtle gradient between deeper reds, pinks, oranges and yellows. More info here on my Astrobin.com site.
In case you’ve missed my celestial (and cocktail) updates, I’m back and kicking, and ramping my astrophotography into high gear. This is one of many deep-space images to come from my remote telescope rig located at @starfront_observatories in truly dark skies near Brady, Texas (see caption below).
