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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula, Eric Smith
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula

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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula, Eric Smith
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula

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I always find this nebula fascinating and difficult to be sure how to process.  Many use the Hubble palette to bring out the contrast, but in this image I decided to let the Ha data dominate the scene and calibrate the whole image using SCC in PixInsight.

In this image there is the star cluster NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, but more dominant is the Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula.  To the upper left of the image there is also Hubble's Variable Nebula NGC 2261.

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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula, Eric Smith