SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
Jon Greif
Location of Photo:
La Jolla, CA, USA
Date/Time of photo:
February 2, 2022, at 10 pm PST
Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ-85ED with 0.85 Reducer, ZWO ASI533MC Pro imaging camera, ZWO 30 mm guide scope, ZWO ASI292MM mini guide camera, Rainbow Astro RST-135 mount, Ekos capture software on a Raspberry Pi 4B and Pixinsight 1.8.8 processing software on a Macbook Pro
Description:
Last night's clear sky allowed imaging of a relatively faint deep sky object, NGC 2174 (also known as Monkey Head Nebula), an emission (Hydrogen II) nebula located in the constellation Orion and associated with the open star cluster NGC 2175. It is located about 6,400 light-years away from Earth. Image is a stack of 18 ten-minute sub (3 hours integration time).
