Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  NGC 2264  ·  The star 15 Mon
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NGC2264 - Cone Nebula plus Christmas Tree and bits of Fox Fur Nebula, seigell
NGC2264 - Cone Nebula plus Christmas Tree and bits of Fox Fur Nebula
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NGC2264 - Cone Nebula plus Christmas Tree and bits of Fox Fur Nebula

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The Cone Nebula is toward the bottom-right, while the Christmas Tree Nebula is the larger region from the Cone upward to just above the bright star. The Fox Fur Nebula doesn't present itself too well (needing more H-a data than Unmodded T2i could readily capture), is above the blue region.

Setting a "baseline" for the T2i (550D) that I've now sent to be Modded, I grabbed 10 images of the Cone Nebula area - 10x240sec@ISO800. I'll revisit, with greater expectations, once the Modded T2i can record much greater amounts of the Near Infrared light emitted by this region.

Scope: Orion 8in F/3.9 Astrograph w/ ATCC

Mount: CGEM - Hypertuned

Guide: Mini-50 SSAG and PHD

Camera: Canon 550D - unmodded

Capture: BackyardEOS

Process: DSS, ACDSeePro5

NGC2264 T2i 10x240sISO800 8Astrograph Darks DSS 1g edit

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NGC2264 - Cone Nebula plus Christmas Tree and bits of Fox Fur Nebula, seigell