Presents Under the Tree: Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula, Christmas Tree Cluster (HaRGB)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: Christmas Tree Cluster · NGC 2264 · The star 15 Mon

Presents Under the Tree: Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula, Christmas Tree Cluster (HaRGB), Bill Long - Dark Matters Astrophotography

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Presents Under the Tree: Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula, Christmas Tree Cluster (HaRGB)

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Presents Under the Tree: Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula, Christmas Tree Cluster (HaRGB)

Link: https://darkmattersastro.com/product/cone-ha-rgb/

One of the most beautiful HaRGB targets I have had the pleasure to work on. I went extremely deep on this in terms of the integration which is just a few minutes shy of 102 hours. Most of the time was spent collecting HA data, which I have included as a revision so you can see what 54 hours of processed HA looks like on this target. That HA data could probably be an APOD of its own it is so amazing.

Processing this did not come without its own set of challenges as the bright star at the top of the frame was causing a square tile artifact in the image. After discussing this with RC-Astro I was able to work around this by resampling the image prior to running BlurXTerminator. If you look at the original image vs the final copy you will certainly notice a large difference, and that is most of the reason as to why. The rest being that, for this final version, I spent extensive time on the HA processing prior to blending that data in. I wanted to take caution to ensure that only legitimate HA signal was overlayed onto the image and that the HA data did not crush or undermine the RGB elements of the image.

The final result is one I am quite pleased with. I hope you enjoy it as well.

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