The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field (Ross Clark)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: Christmas Tree Cluster · IC 447 · IC 448 · NGC 2237 · NGC 2238 · NGC 2239 · NGC 2246 · NGC 2264 · Rosette A · Rosette B · Rosette Nebula · The star 12Mon · The star 13Mon · The star 15Mon · The star 16Mon · The star 17Mon

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field, Ross Clark

Powered byPixInsight

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

Powered byPixInsight

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Nebula, Monoceros

The dark sky secret sauce really did deliver with this image

On the same night I took the aurora image that I’ve previously shared I also captured this data with a lens, DSLR and Star Tracker. I need to make it clear that the DSLR is a stock, unmodified, Canon 6D.

Many People will tell you that this image isn’t possible, you can’t get this level of Hydrogen alpha from a stock 6D, well let this be the proof that you can. If this is so hard then I must have surely taken incredible length subs and integrated a multi hour image session

Nope, 60s sub length and this is 27 of them, uncalibrated to boot

I will not, however, belittle the importance of dark skies in this recipe, it’s a major factor, as is 2 years of processing experience, this result did take a solid amount of time to tease out of the stack the main issue being that incredibly rich star field

Any questions on this then please shout, but if you have access to dark skies, can get a star tracker and have a DSLR and lens then these images are within your grasp

I hope you enjoy the view

27x60s stacked uncalibrated in APP, processed in APP and Photoshop

Canon 6D (stock) ISO2500

Canon EF L 70-200mm f/2.8 at 200mm f/3.5

Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

Images taken from Embleton in Northumberland, Bortle 3. Monday night 11th Jan 2021

Imaged with APT
N.I.N.A. Users
UK Astro-Imaging
DSLR/Mirrorless Imagers from the World
The OSC Club (One Shot Camera)
Camera Lens Astrophotography

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Basic success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	4155760
PixInsight job	n/a
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

The Christmas Tree and Rosette Ha Field

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information