Seagull nebula (known as IC 2177) is a rather large nebula and has a shape resembling Seagull.
The complex of gas and dust that forms the head of the seagull glows brightly in the sky due to the strong ultraviolet radiation coming mostly from one brilliant young star — HD 53367 — that can be spotted in the center of the ‘head’ of the Seagull.
This is imaged with SV130 f/6.6 & QSI 683wsg. Processed using StarXTerminator in Pixinsight. This is a 2 panel mosaic. Integration time for each of the mosaic was L- 10min x 15; RGB – 5min x 9, thus totaling to 570 minutes i.e. 9.5 hours.
In 2022, I took this image with AG Optical 10″ 1650 mm focal length, thus too magnified to take the entire nebula, so I decided to take only the head of the Seagull Nebula.
The so-called ‘head’ of this nebula has a very strong emission of hydrogen alpha gas. This section is also known as NGC 2327. Some people have named NGC 2327 as Parrot Nebula and I can see it resembling the shape of the beak of the parrot. in narrowband over 15 hours (Hydrogen Alpha 25, Oxygen 11 and Sulphur 9 images of 20 minutes each).