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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster, Robert Ruckhofer
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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster

NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster, Robert Ruckhofer
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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster

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This is the official first light with my self made 6" f4 carbon fibre Newtonian telescope.

I imaged this region over two nights and was able to gather 5 useable hours of exposure time using a ZWO ASI2600mc Pro colour camera.
The seeing was absolutely terrible, NINA calculated HFR numbers between 4 and 5 for both nights wich actually is something I haven't experienced so far and I had to do a lot of pretty aggressive star reduction to bring out the nebulosity and dim down the stars. 

It was still a very successful weekend and the edit also turned out very well.

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NGC2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster, Robert Ruckhofer