NGC2264, the Cone/Xmas tree nebula

Posted by Dan Kearl on Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:02 pm

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Located in the Orion complex, just 4 hours in my front yard the last 2 nights
under a Full Moon.
533mc color camera with Triad filter, Askar 700mm scope.
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by david fletcher on Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:11 pm

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Another outstanding image Dan. A marvel!

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by Alexandergubski on Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:24 am

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This is a crazy cool shot. Hope I could do something like this one day!

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by Peter Ireland on Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:48 am

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Another superb capture/snippet of our solar system, Dan

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by Carol Clarke on Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:42 am

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Red velvet view!

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by John Labrenz on Sun Feb 25, 2024 6:51 pm

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Amazing!!!!

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by Axel Hildebrandt on Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:26 am

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Very cool image, Dan, the vibrant reds and patterns are amazing.

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by DavePat on Tue Feb 27, 2024 4:24 pm

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Another great image. Well composed and nice tight stars and no halo around the larger stars. Really well done. Is that lack of halo a trait of that particular filter?

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by Dan Kearl on Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:25 pm

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DavePat wrote: Another great image. Well composed and nice tight stars and no halo around the larger stars. Really well done. Is that lack of halo a trait of that particular filter?

The Radian filter for OSC cameras that I use has very little halo and any that appears can be fixed in PP anyway.
It is no longer made. I would recommend Antila filters for OSC or Narrowband.
I remove stars at a point after going non linear and just process the Nebula and background so halos are easily fixed before I add
the stars back in.
I process the stars separately.

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by DavePat on Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:19 pm

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Dan Kearl wrote:
DavePat wrote: Another great image. Well composed and nice tight stars and no halo around the larger stars. Really well done. Is that lack of halo a trait of that particular filter?
The Radian filter for OSC cameras that I use has very little halo and any that appears can be fixed in PP anyway.
It is no longer made. I would recommend Antila filters for OSC or Narrowband.
I remove stars at a point after going non linear and just process the Nebula and background so halos are easily fixed before I add
the stars back in.
I process the stars separately.

Thank you