Imaged on 12/03/05
Camera: Starlight Xpress M25 Color Camera
Scope: Takahashi FSQ 106 Refractor
Mount: Piggybacked on a Meade LX200
Autoguider: SXV autoguiding camera
attached to an 8" LX200 OTA
Exposure: 4 x 20 minutes
Site: Anza Borrego Desert
Temp: 34 degrees; no wind, good seeing.
The open star cluster(NGC 2244) consists
of young stars which recently formed from
the nebula's material, and the brightest of
which make the nebula shine by exciting
its atoms to emit radiation.
The Rosette is 5,500 light years away.
