Spaceimages - Astrofotografie by Jens Zippel

This picture shows a region near the much brighter cone nebula. In the lower left corner you can see the first parts of the so-called "fox fur".

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Object:	NGC 2259
Date of exposures:	22.02.2018, 28.02.2018, 02.03.2018, 03.03.2018, 05.03.2018, 17.03.2018, 18.03.2018
Distance:	12.000 Lightyears
Exposures:	Ha 5nm: 41 x 900", OIII 3nm: 15 x 900", SII 3nm: 8 x 900", RGB E-Series: 25 x 300". Sum: 18,1
Telescope:	Takahashi Epsilon 130D
Focal length:	430 mm
Filter:	Astrodon H-Alpha 5nm, OIII 3nm, SII 3nm, RGB E-Series
Camera:	Atik 490Exm
Guiding:	Off Axis Guider, Lodestar
Mount:	EQ8

I could not find a catalogue entry for the dark nebula region projecting into the picture in a wedge shape as well as for the light blue shining emission nebula.

The open star cluster NGC 2259 lies in the direction of the constellation Monoceros and is about 12,000 light years away from our solar system. He is several hundred million years old, which may sound old, but is actually a relatively young age. For comparison: Our sun is more than 4.5 billion years old.

The image was created in the Hubble color palette, where the stars were inserted from RGB images, representing real star colors. As a variant here is an additional bicolor version, in which only H-Alpha and OIII were processed together with the RGB. This results in a red-heavy colour impression, which takes into account the H-alpha predominant in the area:

The imaging session in the Blog ...

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