NGC 2244

"The Rosette Nebula"

Constellation - Monoceros

Right Ascension: 06h 32m 41s

Declination: +04° 51' 49"

Distance: light years

Visual Brightness: 4.8 mag

Apparent Dimension: 24 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken-January 28, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -25C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- RGB, , RGB = 10 x 300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft Ver 5.0, aligned, DDP applied in Images Plus and color combined in Astroart 2.0,

levels and curves, unsharp mask in Photoshop CS