This is a wide field shot of NGC2264 (Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster), also within the star cluster is another nebula which has been nicknamed the "Fox Fur" nebula due it's resemblence to a fox fur. This area of sky lies in the constellation Monoceros. I started shooting data for this at the beginning of November but the weather has been pretty bad over the last couple of months so I only managed to finish it last night. Exposure times are 28x10 minutes Ha, 18x10 minutes OIII and 9x10 minutes SII, this was then mapped to the Hubble palette so SII:Ha:OIII = R:G:B It was taken with my Televue NP127/FLI astrograph on a Paramount ME mount

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