NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO (David Payne)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: HD36042 · LBN 810 · NGC 1931 · Sh2-237

Powered byPixInsight

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

Powered byPixInsight

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

NGC 1931/Sh2-237 The Fly Nebula in Narrowband (modified SHO Foraxx) w RGB stars (Auriga) - Nov 13 to 18, 2022
Planewave CDK12.5 - AIS6200MM
A-P 1100GTO AE, Antlia V pro 3nm NB filters
H,O,S: (25,23,16 x 420s exposures, Bin 2x2, Gain 200)
R,G,B: (9,7,12 x 210s exposures, Bin 2x2, Gain 100)
Total Integration Time = 9.1 hours
The Fly Nebula is considered an analogous, yet smaller version of the Great Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula is actually much closer (1350 ly vs 7000ly), and not really that much larger. Both represent a stellar nurseries with very newly formed stars in a "Trapezium" style small cluster. These stars are extremely bright and haven't yet substantially blown away the remaining gases that formed both them and likely future siblings. In the distant future all that will remain is a star cluster replacing the molecular cloud that will have been used up or dissipated.
The image here was actually shot in November of 2022 as a secondary target to use up spare and precious winter clear sky. The data had been placed in a "to process" directory that I had nearly forgotten. Its a good thing that this nebula is bright, because normally I would want additional integration time.
I further experimented with my modified "Foraxx" SHO palette that I am liking more and more. It is great with such as high dynamic range subject, as it can partially replace brightness level with hue change in a subject such as this.

N.I.N.A. Users
Canadian Astrophotography
GHS Made a Substantial Difference
PixInsight Addicts
Sharpless2 Objects
AstroBin Platform open discussions community forum

Please note: The following tables are updated every 24 hours.

Distribution of astrophotographers

This table shows the number of distinct astrophotographers who have been assigned and IOTD/TP award compared to the total number of images awarded.
	Distinct awarded users	Total awarded images
Image of the day
Top picks
Top pick nominations

Distribution of subject types

This table shows the distribution of awards per subject type, compared to the popularity of images of that subject type.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Deep sky
Solar system
Extremely wide field
Star trails
Northern lights
Noctilucent clouds
Landscape

Distribution of data sources

This table shows the distribution of awards per data source, compared to the popularity of images acquired from that data source.
	Image of the day	Top pick	Top pick nominations	Total submitted
Backyard
Traveller
Own remote observatory
Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
Professional, scientific grade data
Mix of multiple sources
Other
Unknown

The “AstroBin Image of the Day and Top Picks”, or IOTD/TP, is a long-running system to promote beautiful, interesting, peculiar, or otherwise amazing astrophotographs, with a focus on technical excellence. Learn more.

Submitted The date and time when you submitted this image for IOTD/TP consideration.	...
Views by Submitters (available since September 19th, 2023) Every image is assigned to 50% of available Submitters. In the event that at least 80% of them don't view the image before its time in the IOTD/TP process expires, it's assigned to the other 50% of Submitters and the process begins anew.
Promotions by Submitters When 3 distinct Submitters promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for Top Pick status. This requirement, in addition to anonymization of images and distribution to only a subset of them, prevents biases and ensures that the best images are selected.
Promotions by Reviewers When 3 distinct Reviewers promote the image, it moves on to the next stage of the process: evaluation for IOTD status.
Early dismissal Staff members have a lot of images to inspect on a daily basis, and they can dismiss images if they believe they don't meet the requirements for IOTD/TP selection. If an image is dismissed 5 times, it's removed from the process. This streamlines the process and ensures that any bias present in promotions could be overruled by other staff members.

Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	7901444
PixInsight job	X7Y8VQFO6U4CI4O6A6ZUCXD8QT0XSPGP
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h31m06s.275
RA (top/left)	05h30m01s.435
RA (top/right)	05h32m13s.350
RA (bottom/right)	05h32m11s.524
RA (bottom/left)	05h29m59s.630

Dec (center)	+34°14′10″.53
Dec (top/left)	+34°04′14″.13
Dec (top/right)	+34°04′49″.72
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°24′05″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	+34°23′28″.75

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

		...
You have no new notifications.

Image Index:

Contribution Index (beta):

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

NGC 1931 - The Fly Stellar Nurseriette in SHO

Equipment

Acquisition details

Description

Comments

Sky plot

Histogram

In these public groups

Notifications

AstroBin is in READ ONLY mode

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Sorry :-(

Are you really sure?

Warning!

Warning!

Are you sure?

Report abuse

Slideshow settings

IOTD/TP stats (last [x] days)

Distribution of astrophotographers

Distribution of subject types

Distribution of data sources

Sorry

Sorry

Share

Upload new revision

Upload uncompressed source (XISF/FITS/PSD/TIFF)

Delete image and all its revisions?

Delete original image?

Delete all other versions?

Delete all revisions?

IOTD/TP stats

The following people like this image

The following people bookmarked this image

Warning

Flag malfunctioning thumbnails

Contains

Remove yourself as a collaborator

Plate-solving information