NGC 2359 (Thor’s Helmet)

From time to time I obtain data sets from remote observatories. One of my favorite providers is the Insight Observatory with telescopes in e.g. Chile, Namibia, New Mexico etc. One of the data sets I received, was data from the reflection nebula NGC 2359 in the constellation Canis Major.

NGC 2359 Finder chart

The images were taken with the following equipment (AFIL-1, Insight Observatory):

Data calibration and registration and the final processing was done with PixInsight. The result was as follows:

The faintest object in this image has an apparent magnitude of approx. 22.0 mag_G (GAIA DR2).