Wallpaper author:
Marcin Cikała
26 Dec 2025
Christmas Tree Cluster - NGC 2264
A beautiful nebula complex in the constellation of Monoceros. It contains nebulae such as the Cone Nebula and the Fox Fur Nebula.
This image was taken from material acquired by the CHI4CCD telescope with a total acquisition time of only 1.5 hours in 300 seconds subs for each chanell L (20 min) R (20 min) G (40min) B (10 min).
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2264
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 100.22083 Dec 9.815
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Chile
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................16 Dec 2020 - 21 Dec 2020
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luminance | 300 | 20m | 4 |
| Red | 400 | 20m | 3 |
| Green | 800 | 40m | 3 |
| Blue | 200 | 10m | 3 |