NGC2264 The Cone nebula.

NGC2264 The Cone nebula. This is the southern region of the same cloud that contains the Fox Fur nebula, lying at a distance of about 2,700 light years in the consellation of Monoceros. I was using my ten inch, f/4.8 reflector, a Vixen Atlux mount, PHD auto guiding, an Atik 383L mono CCD camera and a set of Astronomik narrowband filters, SII, OIII and H-alpha. I captured five minute sub frames with matching dark frames and combined them with flat field frames to reduce the effect of vignetting in the final image. The total exposure times for each filter was sixty minutes.

Hubble Palette + RGB data

Narrowband Hubble Palette

Narrowband luminance + RGB colour

Fox fur and the cone nebulae