2016-12-31 New Year's Imaging from Buford Mountain Conservation Area

Post date: Jan 06, 2017 2:20:54 AM

NGC2264 the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster

NGC2264 the Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster. Imaged with a Celestron 152 mm aperture 750 mm focal length Newtonian, Baader MPCC and UVIR cut filter, Nikon D5200 Full Spectrum and baffled modified camera. Autoguided with 50 mm F/3.3 Orion StarShoot Autoguider and mounted on a Celestron Advanced VX mount, and guiding with PHD2. Camera control with BackyardNIKON. Total exposure of 4 hours 10 minutes at ISO-800 in 25 lights, 18 dark, 19 bias and 11 flat frames. Stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop. Imaged on New Year's night, December 31 2016 to January 1, 2017.