IC 2177 (The Seagull Nebula)

IC 2177 is the one of the "wing" parts of the Seagull Nebula, an emission nebula at the border of Canis Major and Monoceros. Two prominent features are the Seagull's head (vdB 93) and the bright Ced 90 nebula near the bottom of the image. The image is a mosaic assembled from 3 panels using a technique developed for the Milky Way panorama.

Instrument	:	Vixen R200SS (8" f/4 Newtonian with coma corrector) on Losmandy G-11 mount
Guiding	:	ST-4 autoguider
Film	:	Kodak PJ 400
Date	:	30 Dec. 2002
		07:01 - 07:41, 07:47 - 08:27 and 08:30 - 09:10 UTC
Site	:	Alamo Campground, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Processing	:	Three images transformed to equidistant cylindrical projection and stacked using custom software, smoothed with bgsmooth.