Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) in HOO (Massimo Di Fusco)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 14 Aur · 16 Aur · 17 AR Aur · 18 Aur · AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · HD241162 · HD241210 · HD241257 · HD241258 · HD241271 · HD241323 · HD241353 · HD241366 · HD241411 · HD241449 · HD241460 · HD241476 · HD241504 · HD241505 · HD241521 · HD241535 · HD241565 · HD241611 · HD241635 · HD241649 · HD241683 · HD241698 · HD241699 · HD241714 · And 109 more.

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Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) in HOO

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Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405) in HOO

With this nebula I open the triad (+1) of the constellation Auriga.
All the subjects belonging to this constellation are very difficult from my point of observation since I see them only for a couple of hours per night when they are between 10° and 35° above the horizon (from the city sky!!!), so I leave you only to imagine what does this mean when removing gradients. In addition, when the nebulae are so low, the signal is not exactly great and I can't do more than that.
The object in question is the so-called Flaming Star Nebula, here in a bicolor HOO version with RGB stars.

IC 405 (also known as C 31) is a diffuse nebula visible in the constellation Auriga located 1630 light years away from us. In its direction we observe a blue star of fifth magnitude, known as AE Aurigae, a variable and enigmatic star: it would be one of the so-called "fugitive" stars, because they were born in the region of the Orion Nebula about 2.7 million years ago and from there they "escaped", dispersing into the Milky Way. IC 405 shines for the radiation received by AE Aurigae, which ionizes its gases and gives it a red color; the blue spots are instead due to the reflection of the blue light of the star on the dark dust.

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RA (center)	05h15m21s.94
RA (top/left)	05h10m28s.20
RA (top/right)	05h18m44s.65
RA (bottom/right)	05h20m22s.60
RA (bottom/left)	05h11m53s.13

Dec (center)	+33°47′26″.5
Dec (top/left)	+32°46′54″.8
Dec (top/right)	+32°32′23″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°47′13″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°02′12″.5

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