Tagged: Cone Nebula - Adam Lundie - Eatons Hill Observatory

Tagged: Cone Nebula

Cone Nebula NGC2264 thumbnail
13-Jan-2016
The cone's shape comes from a dark absorption nebula consisting of cold molecular hydrogen and dust in front of a faint emission nebula containing hydrogen ionized by the brightest star of NGC 2264. The faint nebula is approximately seven light-years long and is 2,700 light-years away from Earth.

Luminance vs H-alpha Filters thumbnail
07-Jan-2016
A simple image showing a comparison of visible spectrum and emission line filters in stacked images of the Cone Nebula.