Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  Flaming Star nebula  ·  IC 405  ·  The star 16Aur  ·  The star 19Aur
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IC 405 - The Flaming Star, Oliver Czernetz
IC 405 - The Flaming Star
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IC 405 - The Flaming Star

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IC 405 - The Flaming Star, Oliver Czernetz
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IC 405 - The Flaming Star

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The Flaming Star

IC 405 - the Flaming Star Nebula (SH 2-229, or Caldwell 31) is an emission/reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga, surrounding the bluish star AE Aurigae.

2 Frame Mosaic

Leibnitz, Austria

20x120s ISO800 RGB

30x120s ISO400 RGB

62x120s ISO800 RGB

TS Optics 130/719 TrippletSuperflat APO

Canon EOS 1100 D unmodded

Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro HEQ5 SynScan

Lacerta MGEN-2 Autoguider

Additional Data: POSS-II

Image Assembly and Processing: Oliver Czernetz

Software: Deep Sky Stacker, Fits Liberator, Registar, Photoshop CS5E

Hope you like & enjoy, and as always: Feedback highly appreciated. Thanks for looking!

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(The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.)

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IC 405 - The Flaming Star, Oliver Czernetz