The Toby Jug Nebula

Description and Details:

IC 2220 - The Toby Jug Nebula in CarinaIC 2220 is a reflection nebula located about 1,200 light years from Earth. It's made of gas and dust reflecting the light of a central red giant star nearing the end of its life. This image also features a faint shell of red hydrogen gas, for which I used a narrowband filter that isolates its light. Even after 10 hours of exposure the glowing gas was barely visible above the background sky.

Equipment:

PlaneWave CDK17 17" f/6.8 Astrograph

10Micron GM4000 mount

Moravian C3-61000 Pro CMOS Camera

Total exposure: LHaRGB 27 hours

Deep Space Remote Observatories - South at ObsTech El Sauce Observatory in Chile

Data acquisition by Bob Fera and Steve Mandel

Image processing by Bob Fera