NGC 2264, Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula
noirlab_noao-04493 June 30th, 2020
Credit: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
This wide-field image of the Christmas Tree Cluster was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Also known as NGC2264, it is an open cluster of stars embedded in a diffuse nebula. It is located in the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn. The image also contains two famous nebula. At the bottom center of the image is the Cone Nebula, and to the upper left is the Fox Fur Nebula. The bright star just above the center of the image is known as S Mon. The gentle arcs in orange and blue near the center of the image are Herbig Haro objects, jets of gas from protostars embedded in the nebula. In this image north is up and east is to the right. This image was created by combining emission-line images in Hydrogen-alpha (red-orange), Oxygen [O III] (light blue) and Sulfur [S II] (blue-violet).
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04493/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- noao-04493
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Christmas Tree Cluster, Cone Nebula, Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264, S Mon
- Credits
- T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2020-06-30T21:34:02
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-04493/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope, WIYN 0.9-meter Telescope
- Instrument
- Mosaic I, Mosaic I, Mosaic I
- Color Assignment
- Purple, Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- Sll, Olll, Ha
- Central Wavelength
- 672, 499, 656
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 100.267407019, 9.72647946855
- Reference Dimension
- 7875.0, 8089.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3937.5, 4044.5
- Scale
- -0.000117976826558, 0.000117976826558
- Rotation
- -0.17999999999999994
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- noao-04493
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/noao-04493.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-10-02T11:52:25.470559
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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