{"id":903,"date":"2025-12-31T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/?p=903"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:35:08","slug":"ngc-2264","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/2025\/12\/31\/ngc-2264\/","title":{"rendered":"NGC 2264"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NGC 2264<\/strong> is the designation number of the New General Catalogue<\/a> that identifies two astronomical objects<\/a> as a single object: the Cone Nebula<\/a>, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster<\/a>,[3]<\/a>[4]<\/a><\/sup> and the Fox Fur Nebula<\/a>.[5]<\/a><\/sup> All of the objects are located in the Monoceros constellation<\/a> and are located about 720 parsecs<\/a> or 2,300 light-years<\/a> from Earth<\/a>.[2]<\/a><\/sup> Due to its relative proximity and large size, it is extremely well-studied.[6]<\/a><\/sup> NGC 2264 is sometimes referred to as the Christmas Tree Cluster and the Cone Nebula<\/a>. However, the designation of NGC 2264 in the New General Catalogue<\/a> refers to both objects and not the cluster alone.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acquisition Details<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telescope<\/td>Takahashi TOA-130<\/td><\/tr>
Optics<\/td>Takahashi TOA-645 Flattener<\/td><\/tr>
Filter<\/td>OptoLong L-Ultimate<\/td><\/tr>
Camera<\/td>ASI2600MC Pro OSC<\/td><\/tr>
Integration Time<\/td>6.4 hours<\/td><\/tr>
Subframes<\/td>77 x 300 seconds<\/td><\/tr>
Date<\/td>29 December, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Carlsbad, California<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia Description: NGC 2264 is the designation number of the New General Catalogue that identifies two astronomical objects as a single object: the Cone Nebula, and the Christmas Tree Cluster. Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included, the Snowflake Cluster,[3][4] and the Fox Fur Nebula.[5] All of the objects are located […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything","category-nebulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}