| NGC2244 & The Rosette Nebula |
| Object: NGC2244 & The Rosette Nebula: A diffuse nebula located in the constellation Monoceros. NGC2244 is the open star cluster situated within the nebula. The estimated distance is 5.5 (kly). NGC2244 has a visual brightness of 4.8 (mag.) Telelscope: Stellarvue 80mm f/6, piggybacked on LX200 Camera: Starlight Xpress MX916, w/ SXV upgrade Guiding: SXV guider through LX200 10", f/4 Exposures: 15 x 4 min (1 hr), 1x1 binned Filters: IDAS LPS, Schuler Ha Comments: Taken from home. First try at this one, it was 2:45am and I was just finishing IC434. I just had to give it try before calling it a night. I threw in the Ha filter and was able to get 40 minutes. |