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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:TAMRON 500mm f8
Imaging camera:Canon 400D
Mount:Meade LX90 12" Fork Mount
Guiding telescope or lens:Celestron C8
Guiding camera:Lunatico Astronomia QHY5
Software:Pixinsight LE, PHD Guiding, MaximDL 5
Filter:Astronomik CLS Clip CLS clip-in
Accessory:MEADE Autostar 497
Resolution: 3770x2476
Dates:Feb. 22, 2014, Feb. 23, 2014
Frames:Astronomik CLS Clip CLS clip-in: 10x1800" ISO1600 bin 1x1
Integration: 5.0 hours
Darks: ~22
Flats: ~150
Bias: ~200
Avg. Moon age: 22.46 days
Avg. Moon phase: 46.74%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00
Temperature: 5.00
Astrometry.net job: 188532
RA center: 100.269 degrees
DEC center: 9.542 degrees
Orientation: 175.093 degrees
Field radius: 1.471 degrees
Locations: MPC - K09 / Observatori Lliçà d'Amunt, Lliçà d'Amunt, Barcelona, Spain
At last I have managed to photograph this object, NGC2264, very difficult with a suburban sky like mine, which took months chasing, and incidentally, without knowing it, I photographed the curious NGC2261, a variable nebula that always arouse my curiosity.
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