Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  NGC 2264  ·  The star 15Mon
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula, Roger Menard
NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula

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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula, Roger Menard
NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula

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NGC 2264 has been identified as one of the best winter objects to image. So I decided to give it a try.  NGC 2264 refers to both the open cluster of stars and the Cone Nebula. There are also a couple of other nebulae associated with the object. I imaged using a Stellarvue SVX130 refractor and ZWO ASI2600 OSC camera. The area has much more nebulous regions so I could have used something with a wider field of view.  It was fairly windy when I imaged NGC 2264 so out of the 90 images I took (4 minute subs), I had to delete 10.

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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula, Roger Menard