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The Rosette Nebula (NGC2237)

The Rosette Nebula (also known as NGC2237) is a large emission nebula in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy and is located approximately 5,200 light-years from Earth.

 

The image is the result of 15 x 900s exposures captured using a QHY8L camera attached to an Altair Wave 115 triplet refractor telescope. The images were captured, calibrated and stacked using Nebulosity 3 and processed using Photoshop CS6.

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Uploaded on February 22, 2015