Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  15 S Mon  ·  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  NGC 2264  ·  PGC 136496  ·  PGC 136499  ·  PGC 136508  ·  PGC 2818863  ·  Sh2-273  ·  The star 15Mon
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Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula, KiwiAstro
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Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula

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Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula

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NGC 2264 identifies two objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Another two objects are also within this area but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula. Distance 2600 LY within the constellation Monoceros.

Did three captures of this object on different nights using an Ha filter, UHC filter and only UV/IR.

Just getting around to processing these today 8 Feb 2021 - when processing, the HA and RGB combination gave the best results with the RGB data being stronger than the UHC so this image does not contain any on the UHC data of 60 mins.

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Christmas Tree Cluster/Cone Nebula, KiwiAstro

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