Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Monoceros (Mon)  ·  Contains:  Christmas Tree Cluster  ·  Hubble's Nebula  ·  NGC 2259  ·  NGC 2261  ·  NGC 2264  ·  The star 15Mon
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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB), Michael J. Mangieri
NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB)
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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB)

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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB), Michael J. Mangieri
NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB)
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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB)

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Back in 2020 I imaged this object with the ASI1600mm. This is a redo using the ASI2600 and added RGB stars. I've learned a lot more about the techniques in post-processing, so that has come to bear here as well.  The 'extra' challenge this time was the 31mm filters in my image train. With a nebula that fills the entire sensor the vignetting was very prominent and it took some extra processing to minimize the effects. It's time to buy larger filters 
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NGC 2264 - Christmas Tree Cluster and Cone Nebula (SHORGB), Michael J. Mangieri