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The Rosette Nebula in Monoceros
I had been observing for a number of years before I even realised that the constellation of Monoceros existed. It was several more years before I realised that one of the most attractive targets for the owner of a wide-field scope could be found there.
With a CCD and a wide field scope I discovered that it was easy to obtain an attractive image of the Rosette Nebula. The only significant problem to overcome was the neighbour's roof! This was overcome by moving all my observing to a remote scope based in New Mexico.
This image was created by median combining 5 x 300 second images taken with a Takahashi Sky 90 with SBIG ST-10MXE and a Hydrogen Alpha filter.
In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on November 16th 2007.