IC405 Flaming Star Nebula + IC410 The Tadpoles (Narrowband SHO + True Color Stars) (Douglas Triggs)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 16 Aur · 17 AR Aur · 18 Aur · 19 Aur · AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · IC 410 · LBN 791 · LBN 795 · LBN 796 · LBN 807 · LDN 1510 · LDN 1530 · NGC 1893 · Sh2-229 · Sh2-230 · Sh2-236 · The star 16Aur · The star 19Aur · VdB39

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IC405 Flaming Star Nebula + IC410 The Tadpoles (Narrowband SHO + True Color Stars)

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IC405 Flaming Star Nebula + IC410 The Tadpoles (Narrowband SHO + True Color Stars)

IC 405 and IC 410 together in one field, the Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpoles. Let's call it the Tad Star. Or maybe the Flame Poles? I'm going with the Flame Poles. They fit the 432mm + APS-C field of view almost perfectly (I'd have liked just a smidge more space around them to be comfortable making up for the not-quite perfect lining-up of the frames I get with the ASIAir, but it still came out fine). These two make a nice pair, both compositionally and in terms of what frequencies they're relatively bright in (making a nice contrast, I think).

This came out way better than I expected, to be honest.

We've had a string of really good nights lately, so I managed to get this series done in just two nights under near-ideal conditions. Probably going back to being clouded out for a bit after this.

I pulled the stars out of the narrowband images using starnet (the PixInsight process version) and then added them back in from LRGB imagery, so the nebulosity is Hubble palette and the stars are reasonably accurate, color-wise.

...Okay, it really looks like a dragon and a flaming egg to me.

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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h18m51s.20
RA (top/left)	05h26m56s.23
RA (top/right)	05h12m48s.15
RA (bottom/right)	05h10m52s.18
RA (bottom/left)	05h24m44s.18

Dec (center)	+33°58′14″.4
Dec (top/left)	+34°33′52″.6
Dec (top/right)	+35°14′07″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°20′27″.4
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°41′21″.8

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