Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  Christmas Tree cluster  ·  Cone nebula  ·  NGC 2259  ·  NGC 2264  ·  The star 15Mon
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Cone Nebula in RGB, David McClain
Cone Nebula in RGB
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Cone Nebula in RGB

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Cone Nebula in RGB, David McClain
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Cone Nebula in RGB

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Raw frames courtesy of Deep Sky West Remote Observatory in New Mexico, USA. (deepskywest.com) Data obtained with FSQ 106EDXiii / QSI683wsg / Lodestar / Paramount MyT.

10 hrs total integration (15x900s R, 9x900s G, 17x900s B). The palette is RGB. Optimally weighted Luminance was derived from the three color channels and applied. While we have some H-alpha data too, this image uses none.

Processing in PixInsight.

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Revision uses a better method for field star moderation, and also chooses a different color calibration zero point. No color stretching has been used here, as in Saturation or Chrominance stretching. These are the natural colors being fed the detector by the Astrodon filters. Amazing!

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Cone Nebula in RGB, David McClain