The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) (ov_astro)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: 15 S Mon · B39 · Christmas Tree Cluster · HD261783 · HD261938 · HD262402 · HD47553 · HD47554 · HD47662 · HD47732 · HD47755 · HD47777 · HD47887 · HD47961 · HD48055 · LBN 911 · LBN 912 · LDN 1610 · LDN 1613 · NGC 2264 · Sh2-273 · The star 15 Mon

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The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)

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The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264)

The Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264). The formation consists of young stars obscured by heavy layers of dust clouds. These dust clouds, along with hydrogen and helium are producing luminous new stars. Included emission nebulae are the Cone Nebula and Fox Fur Nebula. The structure is approximately 2300 light years from earth.
I captured this image over the month of February 2022. About 36 hours of narrowband capture was used to construct the image. Ha, SII, and OII were captured for 12 hours each using 5 minute subframes.
I recently reworked the data using updated techniques that I have learned using StarXterminator. The dust and gas was rendered in the Hubble palette. The stars were rendered in dynamic narrowband simulating RGB.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6671312
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h40m55s.924
RA (top/left)	06h37m00s.127
RA (top/right)	06h44m00s.130
RA (bottom/right)	06h44m52s.360
RA (bottom/left)	06h37m50s.984

Dec (center)	+09°53′53″.67
Dec (top/left)	+09°28′04″.15
Dec (top/right)	+09°09′20″.75
Dec (bottom/right)	+10°19′31″.37
Dec (bottom/left)	+10°38′18″.25

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