This is a widefield shot of the Tadpoles and Flaming Star region. The chosen color palette highlights the various gasses as follows:
Red - Sulfur II
Green - Hydrogen Alpha
Blue - Oxygen III
The stars were shot separately with short duration RGB filters to minimize overexposing the cores.
Mouse over the main image above for a starless view. Click the image above for larger views. Click the images below for a slideshow of the highlights! Go ahead, pixel peep, you'll be surprised what this small scope can do when combined with a strain wave mount. It's a
drizzling machine.
Processing performed in Pixinsight.
Tadpoles Nebula IC 410The tadpoles, 10,000 light-years away and approximately 10 light-years long, are sculpted by the stellar winds and radiation from a nearby young hot cluster of stars.
Flaming Star Nebula IC 4051,500 light years away the Flaming Star nebula is illuminated by the bright star AE Aurigae, a runaway star passing through the nebula. Here you can really see the separation between the Sulfur II (red) and Hydrogen Alpha (green), and where they mix as shades of yellow and orange. Embrace the green, don't kill it with SCNR.
Spider Nebula IC 417Emission nebula with a small star cluster.
The Fly Nebula NGC 1931Emission and reflection nebula 7,000 light-years away and 10 light-years across. A mini Orion Nebula, complete with a trapezium like cluster of stars.
Open Star Clusters M38 and NGC 1907, Planetary Nebula Abell 9 / PK172+00.1M38 was discovered in 1654 and consists of approximately 100 stars. NGC 1907 is separate, and the two-star clusters are simply passing by each other.
Can you spot the planetary nebula in the bottom, right? It's a faint green donut with my color palette. I was surprised I could see the planetary nebula at all, because it's very faint and only 2 light years across which is a typical diameter for planetary nebula.
Possible AsteroidA possible asteroid is shown below as a faint blue-green-red dashed line as it transited across the field of view during RGB filter integration.
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