Between the Rosette and the Cone
The famous nebulae in the night sky attract the most attention from astrophotographers but the areas between them are not empty and often contain interesting objects. For this shot I wanted to look at the region in Monoceros to the east of the Rosette nebula up to the edge of the large area of red nebulosity which contains the Cone nebula - which lies off to the bottom left of this frame.
You can see two giant "pincers" of red nebulosity extending from the Rosette. In the left pincer there are the red and blue tendrils characteristic of a supernova remnant.
For this image I used a William Optics Redcat51 telescope with an ASI2600MC camera and took 14 hours of data through an Optolong L-eXtreme filter combined with another 7 hours of luminance data. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.
Between the Rosette and the Cone
The famous nebulae in the night sky attract the most attention from astrophotographers but the areas between them are not empty and often contain interesting objects. For this shot I wanted to look at the region in Monoceros to the east of the Rosette nebula up to the edge of the large area of red nebulosity which contains the Cone nebula - which lies off to the bottom left of this frame.
You can see two giant "pincers" of red nebulosity extending from the Rosette. In the left pincer there are the red and blue tendrils characteristic of a supernova remnant.
For this image I used a William Optics Redcat51 telescope with an ASI2600MC camera and took 14 hours of data through an Optolong L-eXtreme filter combined with another 7 hours of luminance data. All post-processing was carried out in PixInsight.