Christmas gets earlier and earlier...

[fireballxl5]

well it seems to, but this image of the Christmas Tree open cluster including the Fox Fur and Cone Nebulae was captured back in Jan 2018😁

Image created with Hydrogen Alpha and RGB data collected using my dual-rig setup (85mm and 150mm refractors) at approx. 1.7 arcsec/pixel over two nights, giving approx. eight hours of Ha (49x600s) and 1 hours 20 mins of each RGB channel (300s subs).

I used the Ha data as the luminance layer and also to add a slight enhancement of the red channel. Processed in PI with some help from MaxImDL, PS CS3 and PhotoLab2 along the way. I found this a tricky image to process, with a couple of false starts! Hence why I've put it off until until a rainy day😂

CS, Andy