The Seagull Nebula © Gianni Lacroce
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The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177 // Miguel G.
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IC 2177 Seagull Nebula & NGC 2353.
Distance to Earth: 3.800 ly
Constellations of Canis Major and Monoceros.
January 28,2023 -Montcada i Reixac-
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Seagull Nebula
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's an enormous cloud of ionised hydrogen gas!
IC 2177
A Bright Nebula in Monoceros
Image exposure:120 minutesImage Size:Size: 2.11° x 1.39°Image dates:2024-04-06
It’s a bit of a stretch but I guess, if you look hard enough, it does look a little bit like a bird or a plane flying overhead, although it seems more like a bat to me. When the shape began to emerge as I began to live-stack this image, I thought I’d made a mistake and was…
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Seagull Nebula Over Pinnacles National Park
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2024 March 13
A starfield features a large nebula, mostly red, partly blue, which seems to have the shape of a bird.
The Seagull Nebula
Credit & Copyright: Gianni Lacroce
Explanation: A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker: the Seagull Nebula. This portrait of the cosmic bird covers a 1.6-degree wide swath across the plane of the Milky Way, near the direction of Sirius, the alpha star of the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). Of course, the region includes objects with other catalog designations: notably NGC 2327, a compact, dusty emission and reflection nebula with an embedded massive star that forms the bird's head. Dominated by the reddish glow of atomic hydrogen, the complex of gas and dust clouds with bright young stars spans over 100 light-years at an estimated 3,800 light-year distance.
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The Seagull Nebula #NASA https://ift.tt/OgIPcol
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IC 2177: Seagull Nebula © CityspaceAstro
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2024 February 21
Seagull Nebula over Pinnacles' Peak
Image Credit & Copyright: Dheera Venkatraman
Explanation: The bird is bigger than the peak. Nicknamed for its avian shape, the Seagull Nebula is an emission nebula on the night sky that is vast, spanning an angle over five times the diameter of the full moon and over 200 light years. The head of the nebula is catalogued as IC 2177, and the star cluster under its right wing is catalogued as NGC 2343. Consisting of mostly red-glowing hydrogen gas, the Seagull Nebula incorporates some dust lanes and is forming stars. The peak over which this Seagull seems to soar occurs at Pinnacles National Park in California, USA. The featured image is a composite of long exposure images of the background sky and short exposure images of the foreground, all taken consecutively with the same camera and from the same location.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240221.html
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The Seagull Nebula, IC 2177 // Jingquan Yan
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Deep Nebulas: From Seagull to California
Credits: Alistair Symon
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