NGC 2264 imaged over several nights - a total of 23 x 20 minute shots. I found this a challenge as it was fainter than I expected - not ideal from the suburbs. One of the sessions was very windy, and the guiding suffered. But left those shots in the stack to get the noise down.
Also got that unpleasant image of the RC8's secondary around the bright star at the top. Only ever seen it around Alnitak before - this star is nowhere near that bright. Perhaps just visible only because quite a bit of stretching of the image was needed in this case??
This image is also my first image taken over several sessions (with the exception of some Ha mixes into RGB images). Surprisingly painless to do in PixInsight!
Thanks for looking,
Paul
P.S. Full res is on
Astrobin.