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Tadpole Nebula - IC 410 (SHO), James Hawks
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Tadpole Nebula - IC 410 (SHO)

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Tadpole Nebula - IC 410 (SHO), James Hawks
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Tadpole Nebula - IC 410 (SHO)

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Tadpole Nebula also know as IC 410 is 12,000 light-years away in the constellation of Auriga and spans over 100 light-years across. The tadpoles have curved heads and tails that point away from the open cluster. The shock wave of stellar winds pushes the tadpoles further from the source. The tadpoles are actually approximately 10 light-years long and are potential sites for star formation.

This image was captured, in a Queen Creek (Arizona) Bortle 7 backyard, using a Skywatcher Esprit 150ED telescope. The telescope is mounted on a 10Micron GM2000 HPS II mount. The camera is a ZWO ASI 2600MM Pro using Antlia Ha, SII, and OIII 3nm filters. It was captured over 8 nights (2022-11-20 to 2022-11-30). The images were stacked/processed in Pixinsight and fine-tuning done in Photoshop. Using the suggestion from Craig Stocks of Utah Desert Remote Observatories, I left much of the green hue (no SCNR in Pixinsight) rather than the common gold and cyan of SHO images.

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