The Rosette Nebula is an emission nebula, a large star forming region located in the constellation Monoceros, the Unicorn.
This nebula is a large cloud of gas and dust that lies near a large molecular cloud and is closely associated with the open cluster NGC 2244, whose stars were formed from the nebula’s matter in the last five million years.

RGB Image taken February 2016 from Lockwood Valley, California

RGB 90:135:135 minutes 2x binned, 15 min sub-exposures

Total Exposure Time = 6 hours