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      NGC 2264...Way Inside the Cone Nebula
      Wallpaper author:
      Thomas Peter

      03 Mar 2021

      NGC 2264...Way Inside the Cone Nebula

      I had one heck of a time processing this one! When I put the SHO channels together, I could see the bright stars and some green haze. I did manage to pull a luminance image out of , what I thought, was a fair amount of data. I saved up 6 One-Click Observations from Telescope Live (which is not a lot but a fair amount--12 each @300s). I did a Buch of ColorMasks and CurvesTransformation and came up with this. I have no idea how these colors should look, this deep into the nebula. I think that this field is centered on the star 15Mon which looks like it resides in a cave of nebulosity and it's a part of the Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264) the actual Cone is just below the bottom of the image.

      This is an emission nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster consists of young stars that are mostly obscured by dust clouds, within which there is a lot of new star formation going on.

      Anyway, hope ya like it...I thought it looked kind of neat!

      Dataset from which the image was processed

      NGC 2264

      4 credit

      Open
      Telescope Live
      CHI-1-CCD
      • Type of target
        ............................................................................................................................
        Emission Nebula
      • Camera
        ............................................................................................................................
        FLI ProLine PL9000
      • Target coordinates
        ............................................................................................................................
        RA 100.25 Dec 9.88333
      • Hemisphere
        ............................................................................................................................
        Southern
      • Telescope location
        ............................................................................................................................
        Chile
      • Transient event
        ............................................................................................................................
        No
      • Observed on
        ............................................................................................................................
        14 Dec 2020 - 15 Dec 2022
      Filter
      Avg Exp (s)
      Total Exposure
      Subframes
      Halpha3001h50m22
      OIII3001h50m22
      SII3001h50m22

      NGC 2264...Way Inside the Cone Nebula