Wishing all the Astromart Community a Wonderful Christmas, and a Safe & Happy New Year!<br><br>Clear skies, my friends!<br><br><br>Ivan<br> 8)

<br>Paul:<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Wishing Everyone at AstroMart and Anacortes a Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year.<br><br>Guy Pirro<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------<br><br>In keeping with the Holiday Season, attached is beautiful image of the Christmas Tree Cluster:<br><br>This wide-field image of the Christmas Tree Cluster was taken at the National Science Foundation's 0.9-meter telescope on Kitt Peak with the NOAO Mosaic CCD camera. Also known as NGC2264, it is an open cluster of stars embedded in a diffuse nebula. It is located in the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn. The image also contains two famous nebula. At the bottom center of the image is the Cone Nebula, and to the upper left is the Fox Fur Nebula. The bright star just above the center of the image is known as S Mon. The gentle arcs in orange and blue near the center of the image are Herbig Haro objects, jets of gas from protostars embedded in the nebula. This image was created by combining emission-line images in Hydrogen-alpha (red-orange), Oxygen [O III] (light blue) and Sulfur [S II] (blue-violet). (Image Credit: T.A. Rector - NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOAO/AURA/NSF and B.A. Wolpa - NOAO/AURA/NSF)<br><br>http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d6/04493x.jpg<br>

Wishing everyone at Anacortes and Astromart a joyous holiday season!<br><br>Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!<br><br>Timm