Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  15 S Mon  ·  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  NGC 2264  ·  Sh2-273  ·  The star 15Mon
NGC2264 - The Christmas Tree Nebula/Cone Nebula, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)
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NGC2264 - The Christmas Tree Nebula/Cone Nebula

NGC2264 - The Christmas Tree Nebula/Cone Nebula, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)
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NGC2264 - The Christmas Tree Nebula/Cone Nebula

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NGC 2264 - Known as the Christmas Tree Nebula and the Cone nebula. This complex is in the constellation Monoceros and is about 2600 light years away. I took this on my birthday (March 7) but have not posted it because I was really disappointed in it. The conditions were not all that great that evening, and I only got 26 x180 second captures. Many of those had to culled because of cloud coverage. This is a faint object and you really need a lot of captures to make it look good. So this was a miss. Now that we are all stuck at home, I pulled every image processing trick in the book so I could you get something to look at - the result is better than nothing - but it is way over processed for my tastes and the signal-to-noise is still pretty bad. Processed ( or in this case, overprocessed with Pixinsight and Photoshop).

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NGC2264 - The Christmas Tree Nebula/Cone Nebula, Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove)