Date Posted: 9/10/2025
Date Taken: 1/2/2016, 1/5/2016, 1/29/2016
Scope: Planewave CDK 12.5 f/8, 2541mm
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Guiding: SSAG, Celestron 80mm guide scope, 600mm.
Exposure: LRGB 225:135:140:140 All subs 5min. Luminance unbinned, RGB binned 2x2.

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack2; RGB combine and DDP with MaximDL. Processed with CS4.

The Fox Fur Nebula is part of a much larger nebula and cluster complex colloquially known as the Christmas Tree Nebula. The Fox Fur Nebula is a collection of gas and dust, superimposed over a background reflection nebula. It is so named because it resembles the head of a red fox stole. It doesn't have an NGC designation itself, but is catalogued separately as Sharpless-273. It is about 2750 light years away in Monoceros.

This is a re-process of an image originally taken in 2016.