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Christmas village between his and her computer screens and under the bird tree. One bird is from my son's baby mobile, 49 years ago. The tree stand is in a vintage Handy Things Christmas tree stand from the 50's. It rotates and plays music box Jingle Bells. The stand was given to me by a childhood neighbor 47 years ago. I spent a day repairing the stand. I had repaired it once before but it only worked for a while then the lights would only come on for half a rotation of the tree. Christopher Radko houses, vintage MIJ houses and various Disney World Town Square sets.
:: awake early :: tree lights :: quiet music :: cup of hot coffee ::watching the sunrise :: a perfect morning ::
With a Christmas tree made of crab traps, which is annually placed by the Morro Bay Fisherman's Association, and a few lighted boats in the background.
Morro Bay, California
The Helmsley Building lit blue and white for Hanukkah. Christmas trees light the length of Park Avenue, making spirits bright.
Merry Christmas to all my Flickr friends. Wishing you all the best this holiday season and in the New year as well 🎄
Our indoor artificial tree.
Thanks so much everyone for your most generous comments and faves. All are much appreciated.
NGC 2264 a.k.a. Christmas Tree Cluster
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Before going into details, the catalog number NGC 2264 does not refer to a single deep sky object, but to four, in the attached image only three can be seen, namely:
- Cone Nebula, an emission nebula that can be seen at the top of the image, being easy to find due to the shape of the nebula, the shape that gave it its name.
- The Christmas Tree Cluster, which stretches over the area between Cone Nebula and the bright star in the center.
- Fox Fur Nebula, which can be seen in the lower left, so named because of the apparent texture that this nebula has in that area.
The 4th DSO that completes the list of cosmic objects that belongs to NGC2264 and which is unfortunately missing from the attached image, is a small cluster, called Snowflake ( of course 😊)
As general information, NGC2264 is about 2700 light-years from us, in the constellation Monoceros, and was discovered by William Herschel almost 250 years ago, on December 26, 1785. Being an emission nebula, NGC2264 is formed mainly from cosmic dust and gases, hydrogen being the most common. That blue "cloud" is just a patch of cosmic dust illuminated by the central star, easily visible.
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Equipment and settings:
Mount: Skywatcher Eq6 R
Telescope: 150/750 Newtonian telescope
Camera: ASI 533MC Pro
Total integration: 9h30’
Stacking in Deep Sky Stacker.
Edit in Pixinsight and Lightroom.
Location: my Bortle 6+ backyard.
This one of the older decorations on our tree, but I love how the Santa face is smiling. Merry Christmas everyone. Enjoy the holidays.
iPad illustration . This work was completed but not placed in Christmas album or groups. The illustration then was reworked into a New Years theme also in 2013.
(From many years ago)
On an old pier, where another tree has been erected annually (see adjacent photo), possibly by another owner. And thanks to whoever does this.
Overlooking Morro Bay,
Los Osos, California
When I went to this spot in late afternoon/evening recently I heard and then saw a kingfisher and it landed on the tree a couple times. But each time it was the back side of the tree. At least I have this memory from the way-back.
As the day breaks, with the back bay (Morro Bay) at high tide, two of the Morros and the Santa Lucia Range,
San Luis Obispo Co., California