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NGC2264 - Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster in SHO Narrowband

NGC2264 - Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster in SHO Narrowband

 

My latest image, I feel like I need more SII and OIII Data though to be perfectly honest, I captured quite a lot of dust even with narrowband mainly due to the high amount of HA frames I suspect, well here it is

 

Image Details:

27x 600S in 7nm HA

18x 600S in 7nm OIII

18x 600S in 7nm SII

 

25 Darks and Flats subtracted from lights

 

Data was acquired on the following dates: 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st January 2017, 13th and 18th February 2017

 

Equipment Used:

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF Imaging Newtonian @F4 with the Skywatcher Aplanatic Coma Corrector

Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C

Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED Refractor

Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II Mono

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW

Filters: Baader Planetarium 7nm HA, OIII and SII 36mm Unmounted

Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software SGPro

Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL

Processing: PixInsight

 

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Uploaded on February 19, 2017
Taken on July 15, 2017