We had two beautiful nights this past week so I dusted off the 4” refractor and joined John McDonald in his backyard. Here an image of the Christmas Tree Cluster with a fair amount of light pollution. The tree is actually upside down in this image.

Cone Nebula NGC 2264 – March 4, 2008
Location: Fairfield, Victoria
Constellation: Monoceros
Optics: Tele Vue NP-101 f/5.4 on Losmandy G-11
Camera: Canon 20Da
Exposures: 59 RAW light frames of 45 sec, ISO 800.
Process: Calibrated with 30 dark frames and 20 flat frames in ImagesPlus. Combined using MinMax Excluded. Colour balance in Photoshop.