RE: The Cone and Fox Fur Nebula, NGC 2264
May 18, 2015 at 12:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2015 at 12:20 pm by orogenicman.)
Two other objects are within this designation but not officially included:
Snowflake Cluster
and the Fox Fur Nebula
All of the objects are located in the Monoceros constellation and are located about 800 parsecs or 2600 light-years from Earth.
The field of view of my imaging set up is FOV= 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin, so with 1,000mm focal length, the object fills my field of view. What this means is that at this distance, the object is very big.
Snowflake Cluster
and the Fox Fur Nebula
All of the objects are located in the Monoceros constellation and are located about 800 parsecs or 2600 light-years from Earth.
The field of view of my imaging set up is FOV= 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin, so with 1,000mm focal length, the object fills my field of view. What this means is that at this distance, the object is very big.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
