Hippocampus Hangout

The hippocampus is a mythological creature found in Phoenician, Etruscan, Pictish, Roman, and Greek mythology. It is usually depicted as a composite creature with the head and foreparts of a horse and the serpentine tail of a fish.

 

The ancients believed these mythological creatures were the adult form of the humble "sea-horse." Hippokampoi were the mounts of Nereid nymphs and sea gods. Poseidon drove a chariot drawn by two or four of these creatures.

 

This is a dark nebula in the southern skies. When I first looked at the raw data, all I could see were these creatures gathered together, and they looked like sea-horse. They looked very cool indeed. Chilling out in front of their very own Hippocampus Nebula. :)

 

The image was composed using 5 filters, Red, Green, Blue, Lum, and Ha filtered light.

 

Instruments:

 

Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS

Camera: SBIG STL-11000 Mono

Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900

Focal Length: 2310.00 mm

Pixel size: 9.00 um

Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix

 

Exposure Details:

 

R 21 X 450 sec Bin 2

G 18 X 450 sec Bin 2

B 17 X 450 sec Bin 2

L 46 X 900 sec Bin 1

H 21 X 1800 sec Bin 1

 

Total Time 29 Hours

 

Thanks for looking...

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