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Auriga's inner Nebulae for Rafaël Mostert, doctor of philosophy, Zeb Németh

Auriga's inner Nebulae for Rafaël Mostert, doctor of philosophy

Auriga's inner Nebulae for Rafaël Mostert, doctor of philosophy, Zeb Németh

Auriga's inner Nebulae for Rafaël Mostert, doctor of philosophy

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My friend Rafaël recently became a doctor philosophiae in astronomy. During the days he was finishing his book for final print, the antisolar point was just south of Auriga, and I decided to dedicate this astrophotogenic region to his promotion.

The angle is now perfectly aligned to celestial north, at first per my mistake; I had no rotational mounting for my lens, so I had to screw the DSLR body directly to a dovetail plate.
It turned out all right though, I liked it enough and cropped accordingly. I might revisit, but for now, I'll settle for the result.


Clearly, something went wrong with the flats; lots of banding can still be seen to the left, and that's after cropping lots out.

What can be seen:
 - The Flaming, Spider, and Fly Nebulae, as well as a noisy LBN794, Sh2-231 and -235, and a speck of H-alpha near SEI 105, romantically called Sh2-228, or the Sh2-226 nearby there. LBN809 is on there, as well as LBN818, NGC1985...
 - The Letter Y, Starfish, Pinwheel and NGC-1907, -1778, -1896 and -1857 clusters
 - A lot of dust and several molecular clouds, some more dense than others (cf. bottom fourth right to bottom third left)
 - If you'd draw a rectangle of HD34790, HD35600, HD35239 and an imaginary fourth star, then in the north-west corner you'll find some cluster-like object (in a circle of center; RA:5h20m35s, Dec:+30°30'30" and of radius roughly 5'). It could also be a bright nebula that lifted the stars into signal. HD34602 seems to be the closest large enough star to be named, or HD242661. I could confirm that this is not an artefact of processing but an actual feature by comparing it to @Yann SAINTY  and @Vergnes Christophe 's widefield photograph of Auriga and the Spaghetti SNR. It wasn't annotated in their PixInsight Overlay. Let me know, IAU, if I discovered a new object. Thanks in advance. EDIT: Found it in Simbad! Open cluster "[FSR2007] 0800".
 - Same goes for RA: 5h40m56s, Dec: 32°15', but I do more clearly think that it's a cluster, no signal-increasing nebulosity of some kind. EDIT: It is! Cl Berkeley 71
EDIT:
These all found after finding the courage to check in Simbad, instructed by Rafaël on the use of that database. It's become a collaboration of sorts!
 - Some nebulosity around 5 14 27 +32 48 07; LEDA 16963
 - Found open cluster Cl Berkeley 69 also.
 - DSH J0518.6+3737 is a cluster that I could make out, if barely
 - [SS62] 43 (interstellar medium object) took some finding in Simbad, I mistook it for LBN803 (via Stellarium) at first.

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Auriga's inner Nebulae for Rafaël Mostert, doctor of philosophy, Zeb Németh