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IC410 Tadpole Nebula, Chris
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IC410 Tadpole Nebula

IC410 Tadpole Nebula, Chris
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IC410 Tadpole Nebula

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Not had a lot of clear weather, but finally got IC410 the tadpole nebula finished last night.

LZOS APM180
QHY268M
ASA DDM100

According to BBC sky at night
IC 410 is located 12,000 lightyears from Earth in the Auriga constellation, and is nicknamed the Tadpole Nebula because of the tadpole-shaped clouds of dark dust that appear to be swimming towards the centre.

The Tadpole Nebula is a region of ionised hydrogen gas spanning over 100 lightyears across that's carved and sculpted by streams of charged particles called stellar winds emanating from open star cluster NGC 1893.

NGC 1893 is about 4 million years old: the blink of an eye in cosmic terms.

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