NGC2174 Monkey Head Nebula
03 Jan 2025This is the Monkey Head Nebula. I’ve done this one in the past and never made a good job of it so I decided it was time to revisit on a rare clear night here in UK. The sky was reasonably dark and I managed to gather some nice data. I also experimented with a new technique where I combined a wavelet enhanced nebula core using a transprency mask in Gimp. It let me get some nice detail in the core without increasing noise elsewhere in the image. I’m reasonably happy with this one for now.
