From all of us at PACS e-Lab, we wish you season's greetings, a Merry Christmas, and a Happy posthumous birthday to Isaac Newton. Pictured here is the Christmas Tree Nebula, captured with the 0.4m Las Cumbres Observatory and processed using Astro Pixel Processor. This was achieved through the collaborative efforts of PACS e-Lab and Kyle Lynch Lab, USA. We used 11 exposures for each of the H-Alpha, OIII, and SII filters. The exposure time for each filter was 300 seconds, which is the maximum allowed exposure time on the 0.4m LCO. Our community consists of amateur astronomers who might be quick to dismiss this work, comparing it to other images already available online. However, they should remember that those were captured using space telescopes, which naturally have better resolution. Space telescope images are far better than those captured with ground-based ones. Professional astronomers, on the other hand, would give us a thumbs-up, appreciating the constraints of the type of telescope we used and the effort that went into this work. To see the image in high quality, download from here: https://lnkd.in/dr-EQTY6 For access to the raw telescope images: https://lnkd.in/dnkCww-m
