Cone nebula is a giant cloud of ionized hydrogen gas, which includes the Christmas Tree Cluster. It’s located between two bright winter stars Betelgeuse (constellation Orion) and Procyon (Canis Minor) and it’s 2700 light-years far from the Solar System. There is a famous picture from Hubble Space telescope of the tip of the cone – star forming complex.
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Bi-color picture didn’t look as I expected, therefore I decided to publish only mono version of hydrogen alpha channel.
| Telescope: | Newton 254/1000 mm |
| Aperture: | 254 mm |
| Focal length: | 1000 mm |
| Mount: | Gemini GF53f |
| Autoguiding: | Orion Mini, TS 50/160 mm |
| Camera: | Moravian instruments G2 8300M @-30C |
| Corrector: | Baader MPCC |
| Filters: | Baader Ha |
| Exposure: | 33xHa 300s bin 1x1, |
| Date: | 2017-02-27 |
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