Monoceros Widefield -- NGC 2264 region, Wayne Jaeschke

Monoceros Widefield -- NGC 2264 region

Monoceros Widefield -- NGC 2264 region, Wayne Jaeschke

Monoceros Widefield -- NGC 2264 region

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Happy New Year, everyone!

We had some very clear skies over the holiday, so while we were inside staying warm, the observatory was capturing images of various deep sky objects. Here is a monochrome, wide-field shot of the NGC 2264 region in the constellation Monoceros in Hydrogen-alpha light.

The Cone Nebula is just below center. The image was roughly framed around the Christmas Tree Cluster. One of my favorite regions in this image is the Fox Fur Nebula (just above center -- enlarge the image to see it better). Hubble's Variable Nebula is to the right of center at the bottom of the image. It's all buried in a rather large dust cloud about 2600 light years from here.

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Monoceros Widefield -- NGC 2264 region, Wayne Jaeschke