NGC2264 Narrowband - (Widefield 2 Panel Mosaic) (astrobdlbug)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: 1021 Flammario · 11.86 · 15 S Mon · B37 · B39 · Christmas Tree Cluster · Hubble's variable neb · LBN 899 · LBN 901 · LBN 902 · LBN 911 · LBN 912 · LBN 920 · LBN 922 · LDN 1605 · LDN 1609 · LDN 1610 · LDN 1613 · NGC 2247 · NGC 2259 · NGC 2261 · NGC 2264 · NGC 2265 · PK201+02.1 · Sh2-273 · The star 15 Mon

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NGC2264 Narrowband - (Widefield 2 Panel Mosaic)

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NGC2264 Narrowband - (Widefield 2 Panel Mosaic)

My last image for 2022, been quite a challenge with the very heavy rains and cloud cover in late November and recently although clear skies, I had full moon to contend with and also very low temperatures (at least for Enlgland -7/9degC).
Did not begin with intention to build a mosaic, but the gas cloud formations around this area are so full of detail , I used teh mosaic function in ASIair and setup the plan , and 29+ hrs later this is the image.
I have applied the new Rus Croman tool BlurXT to each of the channel integrations, not too much and certainly not the defaults, around 0.15-0.2 for star deconvolution and about 60 on the sharpening function using auto PSF.
Stars are a HOO pixel math combination and screened back into the SHO image with ~((~starless)*(~stars))

The Christmas Tree Cluster is a young open cluster located in the constellation Monoceros. It is part of the NGC 2264 region, along with the Cone Nebula and the Fox Fur Nebula, and belongs to the Monoceros OB1 association, a loose association of very young stars located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

The Christmas Tree Cluster was named for its triangular shape, formed by a cluster of very young stars, that looks like a tree in visible light. It is located in the northern part of NGC 2264, just above the Cone Nebula. The seventh magnitude member HD 47887 sits just above the tip of the Cone and the bright variable star S Monocerotis (15 Monocerotis) is located slightly to the north and marks the trunk of the Christmas tree. The apex of the tree is located at the Cone Nebula.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6807735
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	06h41m05s.90
RA (top/left)	06h42m05s.30
RA (top/right)	06h31m55s.65
RA (bottom/right)	06h40m05s.28
RA (bottom/left)	06h50m09s.81

Dec (center)	+09°56′12″.1
Dec (top/left)	+12°14′38″.0
Dec (top/right)	+10°32′07″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	+07°37′20″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+09°19′29″.3

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