The Christmas Tree Nebula

NGC 2264 is the designation number of the New General Catalogue that identifies two astronomical objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster.

 

All of the objects are located in the Monoceros constellation, near Orion and are located about 2300 light-years from Earth.

 

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -15°C gain 101 offset 49

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher AZ-EQ6

Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 60x300s

Total integration time 5h

Dark: 34x300s Flat-50 Bias-100

Date : 9 February 2022

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

Ez Processing Suite from darkarcon

darkarcon website : darkarchon.internet-box.ch:8443/

 

-Pre Processing each panels in PixInsight-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Image Integration

Drizzle x2

Dynamic crop

 

-Processing

 

DBE master Light

Split L,R,G,B layer from Master light

 

__L__

Ez_Deconvolution

Ez_Soft Streatch

UnsharpedMask

LocalHistogramEqualization

 

__RGB__

Linear Fit

BackgroundNeutralization

PhotometricColorCalibration

Ez_Soft Streatch

Starnet++

CuvesTransformation with mask

SCNR star mask

Bring back stars with PixelMath

 

__LRGB__

LRGBCombination

Ez_Denoise

Final CurvesTransformation

DarkStructureEnhance Script

Save as jpg

 

Clear Skies !

Done