Christmas Tree, Cone, Snowflake, Fox Fur Nebula NGC 2264 Ha+OSC (Brandon Tackett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: 15 S Mon · B39 · Christmas Tree Cluster · Hubble's Nebula · Hubble's variable neb · LBN 911 · LBN 912 · LBN 920 · LBN 922 · LDN 1610 · LDN 1613 · NGC 2259 · NGC 2261 · NGC 2264 · PK201+02.1 · Sh2-273 · The star 15Mon

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Christmas Tree, Cone, Snowflake, Fox Fur Nebula NGC 2264 Ha+OSC

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Christmas Tree, Cone, Snowflake, Fox Fur Nebula NGC 2264 Ha+OSC

To my wife's chagrin, I love keeping our Christmas Tree and decorations up until after Valentines (my least favorite commercial holiday). January and February tend to be gray dreary and cold where we live. The only hope is that each day sunset gets that much later to allow more outside time after work to run while playing disc golf.

With that long tangent aside, no wonder I waited 16 days after Christmas to post my version of the famous nebula. I intentionally made the image slight red biased to place more emphasis on the surrounding hydrogen background gas.

The Christmas Tree nebula along with the cone nebula, snow flake cluster, and fox fur are part of the NGC 2264 group. Located approximately 2,600 light years in the constellation of Monoceros. The nebula is predominantly a hydrogen emission type surrounding young open clusters of stars and new born proto-stars.

Also in the top right is The Hubble Variable Nebula NGC 2261 which is a reflection nebula . The faint nebula is approximately 1 light year across similar approximate distance as NGC 2264.

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RA (center)	06h40m50s.25
RA (top/left)	06h37m45s.70
RA (top/right)	06h44m22s.62
RA (bottom/right)	06h43m56s.99
RA (bottom/left)	06h37m16s.32

Dec (center)	+09°57′08″.7
Dec (top/left)	+08°40′22″.2
Dec (top/right)	+08°44′55″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°13′48″.3
Dec (bottom/left)	+11°09′16″.5

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