Wallpaper author:
Philip Yates
18 Feb 2022
The Cone Nebula
NGC 2264 is a region that holds the Cone Nebula, a dark nebula and a star-forming region in the Northern region of the Unicorn constellation, and the Christmas Tree open cluster, a group of very young stars that lies “above” the Cone Nebula, towards the South of the constellation. The Christmas Tree cluster is an active star-forming region. With these two main objects, we can also see the Snowflake Cluster in the middle of NGC 2264. It is also a star-forming region full of very young stars
Dataset from which the image was processed
NGC 2264
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- Type of target............................................................................................................................Emission Nebula
- Camera............................................................................................................................FLI PL16803
- Target coordinates............................................................................................................................RA 100.25 Dec 9.88333
- Hemisphere............................................................................................................................Southern
- Telescope location............................................................................................................................Australia
- Transient event............................................................................................................................No
- Observed on............................................................................................................................11 Dec 2020 - 09 Nov 2022
Filter | Avg Exp (s) | Total Exposure | Subframes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halpha | 600 | 3h | 18 |
| Red | 200 | 1h | 18 |
| Green | 200 | 1h | 18 |
| Blue | 200 | 1h | 18 |