Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) (Gary Lopez)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: 15 S Mon · Christmas Tree Cluster · HD261522 · HD261584 · HD261622 · HD261657 · HD261782 · HD261783 · HD261809 · HD261840 · HD261841 · HD261842 · HD261879 · HD261904 · HD261905 · HD261935 · HD261936 · HD261937 · HD261938 · HD261939 · HD261969 · HD262014 · HD262015 · HD262041 · HD262042 · HD262066 · HD262109 · HD262110 · HD262138 · HD262177 · And 19 more.

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Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)

Revision title: Reprocessed stars and noise

Link: https://www.garylopezphotography.com

Image of the day 02/20/2020

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Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)

Revision title: Reprocessed stars and noise

Link: https://www.garylopezphotography.com

In the constellation Monoceros, the light and hot matter from young, energetic stars cause the interstellar dust and gas to fold, twist, and stretch. The tree-shaped cloud created, nearly 100 light-years long, is decorated with glowing gases and starlight.

For this image I combined 19 hours of 2018 narrowband data taken with a 336mm FL telescope with 9 hours of newly acquired Ha data taken with a 925mm FL telescope. The color mapping was done with the 2018 data and the new 2020 data were used as a luminance layer. This is an SHO rendition.

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Description: Reprocessed with better noise control.

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Description: Reprocessed with better noise control, portrait orientation.

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Description: Yep, still cloudy and smokey here so it is time to reprocess old data and correct tiny issues that are noticed by nearly no one except me. In this new version I removed some distracting (to me) color noise blotches and some blown out stars. Ahhh, that's better.

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Title: Reprocessed stars and noise

Description: In this rendition I strived to improve the small stars that were distorted in the previous version. While the change in this rendition versus the previous will not be noticed by 99% of the viewers, it is one of those things that I notice every time I looked at this image and just HAD to fix it. Ahhh, that's better.

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RA (center)	06h41m07s.434
RA (top/left)	06h38m47s.630
RA (top/right)	06h40m49s.414
RA (bottom/right)	06h43m27s.533
RA (bottom/left)	06h41m25s.548

Dec (center)	+09°45′10″.71
Dec (top/left)	+10°04′21″.99
Dec (top/right)	+09°05′53″.50
Dec (bottom/right)	+09°25′55″.76
Dec (bottom/left)	+10°24′28″.25

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Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)

Revision title: Reprocessed stars and noise

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