Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  NGC 2259  ·  NGC 2264  ·  The star 15Mon
Christmas Tree Cluster, John Michael Bellisario
Christmas Tree Cluster
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Last year(meaning 2019) I wanted to try and shoot the Christmas tree cluster in time to share for the holidays. If you haven't noticed it's become sort of Christmas tradition for astrophotographers. Unfortunately, I waited too long to start and didn't have enough data to put together anything. So this year I started on this project in November and good thing I did because I must have processed the data 100 times Before I was satisfied with the results. Personally I prefer this target in RGB so so that you get the beautiful blue reflection in the center of the cluster. I also wanted to capture the rich detail within the Fox Fur and surrounding Hydrogen. So I settled on 600 second 3nm Ha for Luminance which produced some absolutely gorgeous gas and dust regions. I also wanted to try something new that would give the picture a slightly different look. There would certainly be a surplus of Christmas Tree shots going around so I hope for mine to stand out. Instead of shooting RGB, I used a luminance filter on place of green & to my surprise HaRLB turned out pretty good.

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