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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
Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 5 times x 1,800 seconds, 5 x 900sec, 8 x 240 sec, and 1 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
Red channel got too strong.
Equipment: Sigma 28mmF1.4 "Art" , IDAS NB12 Dual Narrowband Filter, and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 12 times x 1,800 seconds, 10 x 900 sec, 11 x 240 sec, and 20 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/3.5
site: 2,434m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 south and long. 70 16 11 west near Cerro Armazones in Sierra Vicuña Mackenna in Coast Range of Chile
Ambient temperature was 11 degrees Celsius or 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Sky was dark, and SQML was 21.69 at the night.
Hydrogen-alpha emissions were rich in the area. Oblique straight fine dark filaments looked to be connecting two faint hydrogen-alpha emission areas near the center of the frame.
Equipment: Sigma 28mmF1.4 "Art," Dual Narrowband Filter IDAS NB12, and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 6 times x 1,800 seconds, 3 x 240 sec, and 5 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/3.5
site: 2,434m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 south and long. 70 16 11 west near Cerro Armazones in Sierra Vicuña Mackenna in Coast Range of Chile
Ambient temperature was 11 degrees Celsius or 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild, and guide error RMS was 0.73". Sky was dark, and SQML was 21.78 at the night.
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (and cataloged NGC 2264) is so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape. This giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope imaged the "Cone Nebula," a nebula close to home. It exhibits a craggy-looking mountaintop of cold gas and dust that is a cousin to Hubble's iconic "pillars of creation" in the Eagle Nebula, photographed in 1995.
I never get tired of imaging this particular object, there's just so much detail in there, The Cone Nebula, The Christmas Tree Cluster and the Fox Fur Nebula
Image Details
Red 51x150S in SII 6nm Filter
Green: 51x150S in Ha 6nm Filter
Blue: 61x150S in OIII 6nm Filter
Darks, Flats and Flat Darks were applied in the image stacking process
Total Capture time: 13.6 Hours
Acquisition Dates: Jan. 18, 2020 , Feb. 3, 2020 , Feb. 17, 2020 , Feb. 20, 2020 , March 2, 2020 , March 3, 2020 , March 12, 2020 , March 16, 2020 , March 22, 2020 , March 23, 2020 , March 24, 2020 , March 25, 2020 , March 26, 2020
Equipment Details:
Imaging Camera: Qhyccd 183M Mono ColdMOS Camera at -20C
Imaging Scope: SharpStar 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph
Guide Camera: StarlightXpress Lodestar X2
Guide Scope: Sky-Watcher Finder Scope
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Focuser: Primalucelab ROBO Focuser
Filterwheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW
Filters: Astronomik 6nm Ha, OIII and SII 36mm
Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro USB Ultimate Hub Pro
Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software. Sequence Generator Pro
Calibration and Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Mosaic Panel Merging: Image Composite Editor
Processing Software: PixInsight 1.8.6
Pointed my wide field telescope at Cone Nebula · NGC 2264, but no idea what I got, it is probably a spec in there somewhere, got a bit of the Milky Way though.
20 x 90 sec lights 10 darks before the cloud put a halt to it.
stacked in DSS, post in photoshop & Lightroom.
WO Zenithstar 61 ll, Nikon D500, WO 200mm guide scope, ZWO ASI120MM MINI guide camera on SW EQ6-R-Pro mount.
Farmoor, Oxfordshire, UK. 24-3-2021.
Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 5 times x 1,800 seconds, 5 x 900sec, 8 x 240 sec, and 1 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
See the web page:
www.starkeeper.it/ConeNebula.htm
Optics:
Takahashi FSQ-106EDXIII F/3.6 383mm. - APO Refractor
Mount:
AP Mach1 GTO
Camera:
QSI-683WSG
Filters:
Astrodon E Series Gen II LRGB 31mm
Guiding Systems:
SX Lodestar
Dates/Times:
09 February 2013
Location:
Castelmagno - Cuneo - Italy
Exposure Details:
L:R:G:B => 100:35:35:35 = > (20x5):(7x5):(7x5):(7x5) All Bin1 [num x minutes]
Cooling Details:
-35 °C
Acquisition:
Maxim DL/CCD, Perseus
Processing:
CCDStack2+, PixInsight, PS CS5
Mean FWHM:
2.48
SQM-L:
21.66
Most of the nebulae and clusters in this photo are approx 2,700 light years from us. There is a little of everything going on here in the constellation Monoceros. Bright reflection nebulae, dark nebulae, young and old stars being formed or dying.
Photographed 2700 years later on March 11, 2021, Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, Calif
For us astrophotography nerds:
77 two minute photos + 30 darks, 20 flats and 20 dark flats integrated. Stacked in A.P.P. and finished off in P.S.
Mount: EQ6R-Pro
Telescope/Lens: Nikon 600mm f/4e (doubles as wildlife lens 😉
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC
Controller (the brains): ZWO ASIAIR-Pro
This is the last frame of the series. I could enjoy imaging of these objects with the lens. The lens is precise and compact.
A nurse in my clinic called this a pretty snailfish watching us:
Mariana snailfish in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Sevice:
www.fws.gov/media/mariana-snailfish
Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and Canon EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San and Askar FMA180pro, IDAS NB12, Dual Narrowband Filter and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 5 times x 1,800 seconds, 5 x 900sec, 8 x 240 sec, and 1 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5 with EOS R6 and 16 times x 900 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, and 8 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/4.5 with EOS 6D
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo San on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 16 times x 900 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, and 8 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/4.5
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
Much needed reprocess :)
This is a pigging thing! Either my skies ain't up to it or the ED80 is too slow, but this is 11 hours of hard work (well, sort of) and required no small amount of encouragement during processing. And the noise you wouldn't believe!
Unlikely to get the opportunity to add to it this year, so maybe next :)
No apology for the spikes - they hide a multitude of sins, and it is a christmas tree after all :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
162 subs, 3-6 mins, iso 800-1600, total 11 hours 2 minutes
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
This was my first time imaging this object and its surrounded nebulosity, including the Cone Nebula at the bottom.
It is already quite low in our skies from the UK by the time it's dark. Plus it was quite hazy that evening. But I'm pleased with this as a first attempt!
William Optics 70mm refractor with an Astro-modded Canon EOS1100D with Sky Tech Light Pollution clip filter at prime focus, on an EQ5 Pro mount which is situated on a permanent pier. ISO-1600 for 60 seconds, tracking but not guided.
50 x 60 second shots stacked with 30 darks. Processed in Photoshop CS2, Lightroom and Fast Stone Image Viewer
Another DSLR/CCD Hybrid. Redid the image for a wider field of view and added older 8"SCT frames for the "core" area
DSLR
8x120 13x300 LRGB taken with Canon T3i & Meade 8" LX-50 SCT
15x600 LRGB taken with Canon T3i & Orion ST-80
CCD frames:
5x1200 Ha taken with QHY9M & Orion ED102T CF
Hopefully one day the skies will clear so I don't have to resort to these "hybrids" anymore.
2 Dec 2021 - 23 Dec 2022
NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster🎄✨
Lens: William Optics GT81 IV
Camera: ZWO ASI294MC Pro
Mount: iOptron CEM25P
Guiding camera: ZWO 120MM Mini
Total 14.7hr exposure
This is now 275 subs over 8 sessions totalling 17 hours, and is slowly getting there. Still needs more time, but I suspect it will have to wait until next year now. Used a different processing technique to my previous sad looking version, and it seems to have done the trick. Got Hubble's Variable thingy in there this time as well :)
I won't be sorry to see the back of this :)
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
275 subs, 3-6 mins, iso 800-1600, total 17 hours
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5. Spikes courtesy of Star Spikes Pro
NGC 2264 HaGB Final
Finally got around to processing the GB data on this.
Equipment:
Mount-Paramount ME
Image Train:- SBIG STL 6303 -> MOAG-> OTA
OTA: - Takahishi 67 flattener - > Tak-130FNB
Filtration: Heutech LPS, Astrodon 7nm NB
Plate solve:
RA 06h 41m 00s,
Dec +09° 53' 39"
Pos Angle +91° 32', FL 1009.8 mm, 1.84"/Pixel
Exposure:
Heutech LPS prefilter, Astrodon NB,Astrodon GenII Feb 21, Feb 27 2012
ccd temp -30C
7 X 30 minutes bin 1 Ha(7nm) red ( 210 minutes)
4 X 10 miniute bin 1 Green ( 40 minutes )
10 X 10 minutes bin 1 Blue ( 100 minutes )
Total time on target: ( 350 minutes) 5.83 hours
Imaging and guiding thru Maxim DL, Guided thru MOAG 0.2 hrz
Process: Calibration/Assembly Maxim DL, post processing PixInsite/Photohop
Update 2014 Mar 23: Replaced it with better noise reduction. Probably not noticeable unless you look at it zoomed. It does have slightly better fidelity even at gallery size, though.
Messing around with the cone nebula and seeing what had already been done with these data I discovered there are some interesting structures which become hidden if you try to cram the near-infrared and H-alpha both into the red channel where they technically belong. I am probably committing some form of processing heresy by representing H-alpha with blue-green but to hell with convention. Please compare it with this image, at HubbleSite.
Reddish orange colors are representing near-infrared data. Greenish blue colors are H-alpha. Blue is a wideband blue filter.
SMOV3b ACS Early Release Observations (HST Proposal 8992)
Red: HST_8992_06_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci
Green: HST_8992_06_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci
Blue: HST_8992_05_ACS_WFC_F435W_sci
North is almost up. It is 4.5° clockwise from up.
Finally a clear night! "Finished" the Cone Nebula.90 minutes of RGB in 9 subs taken with QHY9M & Orion ED102T CF added to 100 minutes of Ha in 5 subs. It needs about 10x's the data and better processing. Maybe next year.
Date: 20:00-23:00JST Mar.17, 2018
Location: Hirasawa Dam, Chiba Pref., Japan
Cloud Coverage: 5 ~ 10%
Wind: 0.5 ~ 1 kt
Temperature: 0.9C ~ -0.7C
Humidity: 92 ~ 96%
Air pressure: 1015hPa
Scope: BORG71FL(aperture 71mm -> 65mm), Reducer0.72xDGQ (288mm, f/4.4)
Mount: SWAT-200 (single axis autoguiding)
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 3200
Exposure: 22x210sec.x2
Processing: PixInsight, Astro Pixel Processor
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This vignette of astronomer Nancy Grace Roman is part of "Women of NASA," a project on the LEGO Ideas contest celebrating five pioneering women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Roman is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope, seen here. One of the first female executives at NASA, she also developed NASA's astronomy research program.
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Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and Canon EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San and Askar FMA180pro, IDAS NB12, Dual Narrowband Filter and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 5 times x 1,800 seconds, 5 x 900sec, 8 x 240 sec, and 1 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5 with EOS R6 and 16 times x 900 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, and 8 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/4.5 with EOS 6D
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
NGC 2264 - The Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster in the constellation Monoceros. This is a work in progress, I still want to add another 60-120 minutes of data to bring out the details.
PHOTO DETAILS: photographed on January 3, 2014 under good conditions and includes 25 x 60 second exposures (total 25 minutes), 10 bias and 8 dark frames. A Canon T4i and Canon EF400mm f/5.6L USM lens at ISO 800 were used. The camera was mounted on a ZEQ25GT mount from iOptron. Photo's were stacked in ImagesPlus and final editing done in Corel PaintshopPro X6 and X5.
The yellow line near the right upper corner is an artifact of the supergiant star Betelgeuse (αOri).
The west or right side next area of this frame with the same optics is in the link below.
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/7025192917/
equipment: Zeiss Distagon 40mm F4 CFE IF for Hasselblad at F4 and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san at ISO 1,600 on Takahashi EM-200 temma 2Jr, autoguided with FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, StarlightXpress Lodestar autoguider, and PHD Guiding
exposure: 6 time x 30 minutes, 5 x 15 min, 5 x 8 min, 5 x 4 min, and 5 x 1 minute
Location: 11,000 feet above sea level near MLO, Mauna Loa Observatory on the shoulder of Mauna Loa in the Big Island, Hawaii
I could enjoy imaging of these objects with the lens. The lens is precise and compact.
A nurse in my clinic called this a pretty snailfish watching us:
Mariana snailfish in U.S. Fish & Wildlife Sevice:
www.fws.gov/media/mariana-snailfish
Equipment: Askar FMA180pro and Canon EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San and Askar FMA180pro, IDAS NB12, Dual Narrowband Filter and Canon EOS 6D-SP3, modified by Seo san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma2Z equatorial mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 5 times x 1,800 seconds, 5 x 900sec, 8 x 240 sec, and 1 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/4.5 with EOS R6 and 16 times x 900 seconds, 6 x 240 sec, and 8 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/4.5 with EOS 6D
site: 1,467m above sea level at lat. 35 55 54 North and long. 138 24 25 East near Volcano Yatsugatake 東沢大橋展望台駐車場. Ambient temperature was around -7.0 degrees Celsius or 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Atmospheric turbulence was bad, and guide error RMS was 1.33". Sky Quality Meter indicated 20.77 at the night.
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) — so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape — this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region.
This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.
Radiation from hot, young stars (located beyond the top of the image) has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years. Ultraviolet light heats the edges of the dark cloud, releasing gas into the relatively empty region of surrounding space. There, additional ultraviolet radiation causes the hydrogen gas to glow, which produces the red halo of light seen around the pillar. A similar process occurs on a much smaller scale to gas surrounding a single star, forming the bow-shaped arc seen near the upper left side of the Cone. This arc, seen previously with Hubble, is 65 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. The blue-white light from surrounding stars is reflected by dust. Background stars can be seen peeking through the evaporating tendrils of gas, while the turbulent base is pockmarked with stars reddened by dust.
Over time, only the densest regions of the Cone will be left. Inside these regions, stars and planets may form.
The Cone Nebula is a cousin of the Eagle Nebula (M16) pillars, which Hubble imaged in 1995. Monstrous pillars of cold gas, like the Cone and M16, are common in large regions of star birth. Astronomers believe that these pillars are incubators for developing stars.
ACS made this observation on April 2, 2002. The color image is constructed from three separate images taken in blue, near-infrared, and hydrogen-alpha filters.
For more information please visit:
hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2002/11/1189-Image.html
Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M. Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA; The ACS Science Team: H. Ford, G. Illingworth, M. Clampin, G. Hartig, T. Allen, K. Anderson, F. Bartko, N. Benitez, J. Blakeslee, R. Bouwens, T. Broadhurst, R. Brown, C. Burrows, D. Campbell, E. Cheng, N. Cross, P. Feldman, M. Franx, D. Golimowski, C. Gronwall, R. Kimble, J. Krist, M. Lesser, D. Magee, A. Martel, W. J. McCann, G. Meurer, G. Miley, M. Postman, P. Rosati, M. Sirianni, W. Sparks, P. Sullivan, H. Tran, Z. Tsvetanov, R. White, and R. Woodruff
Lots of subs used in this semi-full frame.
Imaging telescope or lens: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Imaging camera: Nikon d7100
Mount: ORION Sirius EQ-G
Guiding telescope or lens: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Software: PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight , Photoshop CS 6 Adobe, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions
Resolution: 6036x4020
Dates: Feb. 9, 2015, March 22, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016, Jan. 5, 2016, Jan. 14, 2016, Jan. 27, 2016, Jan. 28, 2016
Frames:
63x70" ISO1000
22x90" ISO1250
118x60" ISO1600
8x180" ISO2000
74x70" ISO2500
21x180" ISO800
Integration: 6.6 hours
Avg. Moon age: 15.28 days
Avg. Moon phase: 52.07%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Temperature: -1.33
RA center: 100.222 degrees
DEC center: 9.947 degrees
Pixel scale: 4.471 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.251 degrees
Field radius: 1.394 degrees
Locations: Eldorado (6767' elev), @ Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States; Home observatory, Cheyenne, WY (elevation: 6014'), United States
Description
A lot is going on in this star-nebula complex. Key in capturing these subtle structures is to not over-process EVERYTHING. Easier said than done!
The winter sky at night through trees and clouds.
To view or download the full sized image, visit lifeinmegapixels.com/locmini.php?location=MC46
Red channel got too strong.
Equipment: Sigma 28mmF1.4 "Art" , IDAS NB12 Dual Narrowband Filter, and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 12 times x 1,800 seconds, 10 x 900 sec, 11 x 240 sec, and 20 x 60 seconds at ISO 6,400 and f/3.5
site: 2,434m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 south and long. 70 16 11 west near Cerro Armazones in Sierra Vicuña Mackenna in Coast Range of Chile
Ambient temperature was 11 degrees Celsius or 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Sky was dark, and SQML was 21.69 at the night.
🌌 Cone Nebula and Surrounding Region 🌌
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This stunning image showcases the Cone Nebula, a dark pillar of gas and dust embedded within the larger Christmas Tree Cluster (NGC 2264). Located approximately 2,700 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, this region is a vibrant nursery of star formation.
🔭 Apparent Size: ~30 arcminutes (roughly the size of the full Moon in the sky)
✨ Apparent Magnitude: ~+3.9 (for the entire cluster, visible with binoculars under dark skies)
The characteristic shape of the Cone Nebula is sculpted by intense radiation and stellar winds from nearby hot, young stars. The colorful glow in this image is a result of hydrogen-alpha emissions (red/orange) and reflection from dust particles illuminated by starlight.
Captured with precision to bring out the intricate textures and vibrant colors, revealing the nebula’s hidden beauty.
Let me know your thoughts! 🌠
Lights: 160x300" (LRGB - SHO)
Instruments: Telescope Planewave CDK24, Camera FLI ProLine PL9000, Filters Astrodon
Date: 15/12/2022
#Astrophotography #ConeNebula #NGC2264 #AstronomyLovers #SpaceArt #StarNursery #AstroPhoto
Cone and Fox-fur nebula. It was a bit tricky to get the Ha to stand out w/o overwhelming the nice reflection nebula. Combined to LHa-(HaR)GB. Like the Halpha shot, this definitely needs more exposure time and subexposure time, but the clouds were frequently interrupting longer subexposures. Decided many shorter exposures were the way to go, letting me weed out the bad frames.
Imaging scope: Astro-Tech 106mm Triplet
Imaging Camera: ST8300M (capture with Equinox Image)
Filters: Baader filters in FW5-8300 filter wheel
Guide scope: Orion EON 80mm
Guide camera: Starfish Fishcamp (guided with PHD)
Mount: Atlas EQ-G
Calibrated in Equinox Image and processed in PixInsight.
Lum: 14x3min (1x1)
R: 7x3min (2x2)
G: 6x3min (2x2)
B: 7x3min (2x2)
Halpha: 10x8min (2x2)
NGC 2264 is a well-known example of a cloud of dust and glowing gas fluorescing in the intense ultraviolet light of stars recently born within itself. Known as both The Cone Nebula and The Christmas Tree Cluster, this object is one of the most photographed in the sky. It's unique shape strongly resembles a Christmas tree in wide field images. The tree is upside down in my image, which includes only the top part of the tree. At the top (bottom in my image) lies the dark area dubbed The Cone Nebula. It is a very dense, relatively unlit portion of the nebula. It is so dense that no stars can be seen through it.
This image consists of about 12 hours of imaging. Details can be seen on my NGC 2264 page in my astrobin collection.
Reprocess of NGC 2264 4/5/2012
Combined older image data from 80mm Orion ST with older data from 8"Meade LX-50 SCT @F/6.3
Tracking and focus weren't the best. Most of these frames(except Ha) were taken early in my AP "career"
Telescopes used: Orion ST-80(my "guide scope") mounted to 8" Meade LX-50 SCT on standard Meade equatorial mount & HD tripod
Images aquired using APT
Guided with Starshoot Autoguider and 50mm guide scope
Binned 2x2 in Nebulosity
Aligned and scaled all images from ST-80 and SCT stacked with Nebulosity
Post-process with StarTools,Paint.net, GIMP & Windows Live Photo
Found frames taken on 12/2/11 & 12/3/11 and combined with frames taken on 2/20/12
84 total frames:
35x120 sec
34x300 sec
15x600 sec (6 x600 Ha,9x600 CLS filter)
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The Open Cluster, NGC 2264, is often referred to as the Christmas Tree Cluster, but to me seeing a Christmas tree in this cluster, is difficult. It might be due to the orientation through my refractor where the tree is upside down and mirror-reverse. Besides, to me, the Christmas Tree Cluster should be M103 in Cassiopeia (See: www.flickr.com/photos/dragonflyhunter/39157918591/in/date... ).
The NGC 2264 designation represents both the Open Cluster and the famous Cone Nebula in which it is imbedded. Even with OIII and H-beta nebula filters, I could not make out the Cone Nebula with the 110mm refractor on the night of the drawing. Even using my 18-inch Dobsonian-telescope from a dark site, the Cone Nebula is not all that impressive. The wonderful Hubble photograph of the Cone Nebula shows it as a magnificent structure that is truly beyond words. The photograph has been named by some as the “Throne of God”.
NGC 2264 is attractive and despite the limitations of my telescope and imagination, it should not be passed over.
Additional Astronomy drawings can be seen at: www.orrastrodrawing.com
I enjoyed processing for a week, and I could dig a little deeper than before.
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/4208268614/
equipment: Zeiss S-Orthoplanar 60mmF4 at F5.6, special focuser and adapter for EOS mount, and EOS 5Dmk2-sp2 by Seo san at ISO 1,600 on EM-200 temma 2Jr, autoguided with FSQ-106ED, Starlight Xpress Lodestar, and PHD guiding.
exposure: 4 times x 30 minutes, 1 x 15 min, 5 x 4 min, and 6 x 1 minute, 161 minutes in total
location: a dark site at 4,000 feet above sea level in Nagano, 70 miles from Tokyo.
Christmas Tree Custer, Cone Nebula, Konusnebel, NGC2264
Pentax K3ii, TS APO 80/480
60 x 300s @ ISO 800
This is 10 300sec exposures stacked in nebulosity. This faint object definitely needs a lot more exposure to bring out the detail and reduce noise. Looking forward to gathering more data on this when it comes around again, especially in H-alpha.
My latest attempt at the Cone Nebula. This time imaged with the SV152 refractor and the STL-11K camera to give a bigger FOV. A LRGB combine of about 6 hours total.
Orion over Ayers Rock (Australia, december 2002)
Technical data:
28 mm f/2.5 lens, 1 minute exposure on Kodak Ekachrome 100.
NGC 2264 - La nébuleuse du cône
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Gear - Matériel 🔭
- Mount : Skywatcher EQ6-R
- Scope : Skywatcher 200/1000 BD
- Guiding : ZWO ASI290MM Mini on ZWO OAG
- Imaging camera : ZWO ASI071MC Pro
- Filters : Optolong L-extreme
- Corrector : TS GPU
Picture - Prise de vue 📷
- Total integration : 6h00
- Light :7260 x 300s
- Dark : 30
- Flat : 20
- Gain : 90
- Sensor temp : -5°C
Software - Logiciels
- Imaging session : Nina
- Guiding : PHD2
- Stacking : PixInsight
- Processing : PixInsight, Photoshop
Cropped version from 306 short duration subs.
Imaging telescope or lens: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Imaging camera: Nikon d7100
Mount: ORION Sirius EQ-G
Guiding telescope or lens: Nikon NIKKOR 180 F2,8 AIS ED
Software: PixInsight 1.8 Ripley PixInsight , Photoshop CS 6 Adobe, Noel Carboni's Astro Tools for PhotoShop Noel Carboni Actions
Resolution: 6036x4020 (original uncropped)
Dates: Feb. 9, 2015, March 22, 2015, Jan. 1, 2016, Jan. 5, 2016, Jan. 14, 2016, Jan. 27, 2016, Jan. 28, 2016
Frames:
63x70" ISO1000
22x90" ISO1250
118x60" ISO1600
8x180" ISO2000
74x70" ISO2500
21x180" ISO800
Integration: 6.6 hours
Avg. Moon age: 15.28 days
Avg. Moon phase: 52.07%
Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00
Temperature: -1.33
RA center: 100.222 degrees
DEC center: 9.947 degrees
Pixel scale: 4.471 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 90.251 degrees
Field radius: 1.394 degrees
Locations: Eldorado (6767' elev), @ Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States; Home observatory, Cheyenne, WY (elevation: 6014'), United States
Description
A lot is going on in this star-nebula complex. Key in capturing these subtle structures is to not overdue EVERYTHING. Easier said than done!
North is to the top.
The Cone Nebula, located about 2700 light years away, was discovered by William Herschel on December 26, 1785. Features in the image include red emission from diffuse interstellar hydrogen and wispy filaments of dark dust. The dark Cone Nebula region clearly contains much dust which blocks light from the emission nebula and open cluster NGC 2264 behind it. One hypothesis holds that the Cone Nebula is formed by wind particles from an energetic source blowing past the Bok Globule at the head of the cone.
Source: NASA APOD
Taken from 11/22/2011 to 2/21/2012 Chino Valley, AZ
RCOS 12.5" Ritchey-Chrétien w/ an SBIG STL-11000 camera using Astrodon Gen II filters.
LRGB Exposure Details:
Lum 435 min. (27 x 15 min.)
RGB 450 min. (10 x 15 min. each)
Original size = 3840 x 2560
For more info and a larger image see...
Date: 19:30-24:15JST Jan.30, 2017
Location: Asagiri Arena, Shizuoka Pref., Japan
Weather: Windy
Cloud Coverage: <5%
Scope: BORG71FL, Reducer0.72xDGQ (288mm, f/4.1)
Mount: SWAT-200 (single axis autoguiding)
Autoguider: QHY5L-II, LM75JC, PHD2
Camera: Canon EOS 6D (SEO-SP4)
ISO speed: 3200
Exposure: (Rosette)26x270sec. + (Cone)10x270sec. (2 panels mosaic)
Processing: PixInsight
I took the area through the whole stay in Chile for a week. This frame was composed of data taken for three nights. Stars near left upper corner got trailed due to differential atmospheric refraction near the horizon.
Here is the same area taken with the same lens in Hawaii 2019:
Barnard's Loop and Eridanus Loop with Sigma 28mmF1.4:
www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/49812057423
Eridanus Loop is a SuperNova Remnant. Barnard's Loop is said to be formed by two SuperNovae as below.
"A 3D View of Orion. I. Barnard's Loop" by Foley M et al 2023:
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acb5f4/pdf
Equipment: Sigma 28mmF1.4 "Art" and EOS R6-SP5, modified by Seo San on ZWO AM5 Equatorial Mount, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, ZWO ASI 120MM-mini, and PHD2 Guiding
Exposure: 18 times x 900 seconds, 10 x 240 sec, and 17 x 60 seconds at ISO 1,600 and f/3.5
site: 2,434m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 south and long. 70 16 11 west near Cerro Armazones in Sierra Vicuña Mackenna in Coast Range of Chile
Ambient temperature was 11 degrees Celsius or 52 degrees Fahrenheit. Wind was mild. Sky was dark, and SQML was 21.69 at the night.