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Rosette and Cone nebulae cluster; aka sh2-275 and NGC2264 @ 230 mm FL in HOO Palette (OSC, APP 4 panels mosaic), Dev (Dave) Prana
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Rosette and Cone nebulae cluster; aka sh2-275 and NGC2264 @ 230 mm FL in HOO Palette (OSC, APP 4 panels mosaic)

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Rosette and Cone nebulae cluster; aka sh2-275 and NGC2264 @ 230 mm FL in HOO Palette (OSC, APP 4 panels mosaic)

Revision title: Stars Spiked version

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Rosette and Cone nebulae cluster; aka sh2-275 and NGC2264 @ 230 mm FL (OSC, 4 panels mosaic, HOO palette inspired cropped version)
So, a few nights ago, the moon was about 75% full, and we got about 5 hrs of clear skies, and I took my go-to Askar FMA230 septet apo on ZWO AM5 mount out on the backyard patio for a quick one hour per panel data acquisition towards one of my fave winter cosmic targets in the Orion constellation. Moon was not too far away, so I used the L extreme filter, and the preliminary results are astounding, better than I expected. I know I need at least 2 more hrs per panel to get the nebulosity correct, but for a test run this was a major success.. you can tell panel 1 and panel 4 had less data as I only collected 30 minutes on each of those two panels before the top of our trees started showing up in the cone cluster.
Note: Full workflow is super lengthy, so please ask me specific questions if you'd like to know more about this post or final image. Astro Pixel Processor stack, post processed in Pixinsight with final touches using Paintshop pro for clarity and vibrancy.
Full equipment and resolution on Astrobin. Please touch the image and click on "Full Resolution" for full effect of all the known stars in the image, as FB version hardly shows 10% of the total stars in the final image:

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Rosette and Cone nebulae cluster; aka sh2-275 and NGC2264 @ 230 mm FL in HOO Palette (OSC, APP 4 panels mosaic), Dev (Dave) Prana