NGC 2264 - The Christmas Tree cluster and the Cone nebula (Alessandro Cernuzzi)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Monoceros (Mon) · Contains: 15 S Mon · B39 · Christmas Tree Cluster · Hubble's variable neb · NGC 2259 · NGC 2261 · NGC 2264 · Sh2-273 · The star 15Mon

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NGC 2264 - The Christmas Tree cluster and the Cone nebula

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NGC 2264 - The Christmas Tree cluster and the Cone nebula

A wide field of NGC 2264. I travelled to the Icelandic countryside to take an unfiltered image of this nebula, from a Bortle 4 location. Actually, it took two days. On day one the grease of my SGP motor froze and couldn't move 😃 I lost a night, but the day after I went back and wrapped the SGP with nichrome wire stuck in duct tape and fabric, something I made myself to use as dew heater band, everything worked! At this point I might make an heated Christmas jumper for the SGP 😃 There are so many stars in this field it became difficult to keep them at bay. Probably I should have used the UHC filter to increase contrast a little and keep the stars a little smaller. Also, some stars are a little egg shaped. I pushed 6 guided minutes subs on the Skyguider Pro, but for my setup it seemed a little over the limit. 5 minutes subs would have been a better option, but now I've got a CEM25, so next time I have to try it ;)

Hope you enjoy it,

peace & clear skies

Alessandro

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RA (center)	06h41m06s.30
RA (top/left)	06h34m40s.53
RA (top/right)	06h47m27s.66
RA (bottom/right)	06h47m33s.54
RA (bottom/left)	06h34m42s.80

Dec (center)	+09°50′33″.4
Dec (top/left)	+08°43′50″.7
Dec (top/right)	+08°42′45″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+10°56′45″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+10°57′46″.4

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