Cone Nebula (Starless)

With my new wider-view telescope, my second image is a partially Narrowband image (HaRGB) of Cone Nebula.

For this image, I decided to use a tool to remove all stars from the image just to be able to see the large molecular cloud made primarily of Hydrogen.

The Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) is a long, dark interstellar pillar of gas and dust located in the constellation Monoceros. It lies approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth, in the Orion arm of the Milky Way.

At magnitude 3.9, this nebula can be faintly observed through a telescope visually under dark, moonless skies. However, the true beauty and structure of this nebula can only be revealed in detail through astrophotography.

Years ago, I had taken a much smaller area of this nebula with my old telescope and that image is available here.

I took this image over 14 hours. (For Hydrogen Alpha 47 images of 10 minutes each and 25 images of 5 minutes for RGB).

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