Title: "THE CHRISTMAS TREE CLUSTER" - with Cone & Fur Fox Nebula - Deepfield 1665mm LhARGB Continuum Substraction
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"THE CHRISTMAS TREE CLUSTER"
- with Cone & Fur Fox Nebula
- Deepfield 1665mm LhARGB Continuum Substraction
- Constellation Monoceros
NGC 2264 describes an area consisting of a part of an H-II region (with a dark cloud in front of it, the Cone Nebula), a star cluster (the Christmas Tree Cluster) and the diffuse nebula in between. It is located about 2500 light years away in the constellation Unicorn. Sounds very close when you know that many objects in the sky are millions of light years away - but it's not a stone's throw! The light from this nebula therefore takes 2600 years to reach us here. What we see here is the past, even before the birth of Christ :-) So you are a time traveler when you look at this and all other astrophotographs ;-)
The nebula got its name because, when rotated correctly, it has the shape of a Christmas tree, the twinkling brightest stars then represent the Christmas tree baubles :-)
The X-Mass Tree Nebula is a special nebula, as it shows us one of the youngest star-forming regions in the galaxy. Star children, so to speak - but, even they are a few million years old - you see, everything in the universe is a bit different, bigger, more powerful, more impressive :-)
I wish you a nice pre-Christmas time with this picture, one more will come from this region, then on Christmas Eve :-)
Telescope: AFIL-1 - Optics AG10 CDK F6.7 f=1665mm
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8RH
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro 3,76 Pixelsize
Filters: Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Red, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Green, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Blue
Filters: Astrodon 5nm NB filters Ha 50mm Round
Lights RGB: R 42x 180s, G 40x 180s, B 38x 180s Bin1x1
Lights HSO: hA 28x 1800s, SII 70x 1800s, OIII 32x 1800s Bin1x1
Location: Lijiang, China (Gemini Observatory)
Image Data Acquired By Alpha Zhang
Acquired image set from Insight Observatory
Image processing:
mainly Pixinsight, additionally Photoshop, Lightroom, GraXpertAI, BTX Blur Terminator, Noise Terminator, Star X Terminator
Editing and development by me, in RGBhA, Super-Luminance from RGBhA.
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Title: "THE MERRY CHRISTMAS TREE NEBULA" - with Cone & Fur Fox Nebula - Deepfield 1665mm Composing
Description:
"THE MERRY CHRISTMAS TREE NEBULA"
- with Cone & Fur Fox Nebula
- Deepfield 1665mm Composing
- Constellation Monoceros
I wish all my loved ones, friends, relatives, colleagues, astro friends and universe enthusiasts a merry and blessed Christmas from the bottom of my heart!
My Christmas wish is for all of you to be well, to stay healthy and lively, peaceful and full of joy in your existence!
Christmas is a time for happiness, kindness, forgiveness and hugs - even if we are currently being hit by one flu wave and Covid attack after another, you can also give a hug, with a smile and a wink - and I am now sending such a hug out into the world, feel hugged by me!
Many thanks also to everyone who sends me such great and enthusiastic messages about my astro pictures throughout the year, I am always very happy about it :-) Last year I changed my astrophotography setup, and I'm still practicing, so there were a lot of pictures I took with remote telescopes, and also acquired image sets to stay on the ball in image processing. In 2024 there will be more of my own OCntent again, with self-made images - I'll probably concentrate primarily on our solar system :-)
The Christmastree Nebula got its name because, when rotated correctly, it has the shape of a Christmas tree, the twinkling brightest stars then represent the Christmas tree baubles :-) The X-Mas Tree Nebula is a special nebula, as it shows us one of the youngest star-forming regions in the galaxy. Star children, so to speak - but, even they are a few million years old - you see, everything in the universe is a little different, bigger, more powerful, more impressive :-)
Telescope: AFIL-1 - Optics AG10 CDK F6.7 f=1665mm
Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8RH
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro 3,76 Pixelsize
Filters: Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Red, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Green, Astrodon Gen1 E-Series Tru-Balance Blue
Filters: Astrodon 5nm NB filters Ha 50mm Round
Lights RGB: R 42x 180s, G 40x 180s, B 38x 180s Bin1x1
Lights HSO: hA 28x 1800s, SII 70x 1800s, OIII 32x 1800s Bin1x1
Location: Lijiang, China (Gemini Observatory)
Image Data Acquired By @Alpha Zhang
Acquired image set from Insight Observatory
Image processing:
mainly Pixinsight, additionally Photoshop, Lightroom, GraXpertAI, BTX Blur Terminator, Noise Terminator, Star X Terminator
Editing and development by me, in RGBhA, Super-Luminance from RGBhA. For this special Christmas elaboration, I combined different narrowband elaborations to create a colorful, somewhat green Astro Christmas tree. I hope you like it :-)
#monoceros #christmastreecluster #ngc2264 #conenebula #foxfurnebula #universe #artofpixastro #astrophotography #insightobservatory
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