NGC 2264 and friends in Monoceros (Cone, Christmas Tree and Fox Fur)

[The Thing]

Group of 148 Light frames (126 active) x240s - 9.8 hours during the full moon. Respect to the Optolong lEnhance filter! I may have overdone Dark Structure Enhance in Pixinsight and Live Denoise in Affinity. But it looks lovely

Gain 120, Offset 4, Temp-5c

Image date, time and location: 2023-02-07, Manche, France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: TS1506UNC, TSGPU Coma Corrector, f4 Fl 607mm
Camera and filters used: ZWO ASI294MC Pro, Optolong lEnhance dual band filter
Processing applied: Pixinsight, Affinity Photo 2


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[Carole]

Some nice structure in there Duncan.  Very nice.
Carole

[The Thing]

Thanks Carole.

I'm going to redo some of the post-process, I used a 'new' Pixinsight stretching process (Generalised Hyperbolic Stretch) before looking at the videos explaining how to use it. It is is lot more complex and capable than any I've used before but I should be able to make a lot more of this much good data if I do it right.

[Carole]

Just to clarify (from the point of view of presenting at Members Images) is this done in narrowband dual band only i.e. not combined with a normal RGB image?

Carole

[The Thing]

Just to clarify (from the point of view of presenting at Members Images) is this done in narrowband dual band only i.e. not combined with a normal RGB image?

Carole

Yes, no RGB just Ha and OIII with a bit of Hb next to it. It's quite a wide dual band filter, almost a tri-band.

[Roberto]

Excellently framed!  Very well done.   

Roberto