Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (Scott Deming)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: Christmas Tree Cluster · NGC 2264 · NGC 3930 · The star 15Mon

Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula, Scott Deming

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Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxpclrxq1zsm2rf/CT%204%20again%20again%20TIFF.tif?dl=0

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Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxpclrxq1zsm2rf/CT%204%20again%20again%20TIFF.tif?dl=0

This is my fourth attempt at NGC 2264. Last night was very cold and quite frosty. Fortunately, I have a dew heater on my secondary mirror, so that kept things working. The guiding was not great last night, therefore I'm not very happy with the stars. With that said, this is only 2 hours and 40 minutes of integration, so the amount of detail and contrast for that duration of time is pretty nice.

I purposely flipped this image so that the Christmas Tree was right side up, with the Cone Nebula at the top.

Telescope: Orion 8" f3.9 Newtonian

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: QHY294C

Guide Scope: Orion 60mm

Guide Camera: ZWO120 mini mono

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Lights: 110 subs at 90 seconds each

Darks: 40

Flats: 40

Dark Flats: 40

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