Auriga - a high emission chariot (Tom Gray)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 24 Aur · 25 Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · IC 417 · M 36 · M 38 · NGC 1893 · NGC 1912 · NGC 1960 · The star 14 Aur · The star 16 Aur · The star 17 Aur · The star 18 Aur · The star 19 Aur · The star φ Aur · The star χ Aur

Auriga - a high emission chariot, Tom Gray

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With COP 28, the UN climate conference in Dubai, shrouded in controversy, and more electric cars proposed as a solution, this particular chariot can only be described as high on emissions.

Auriga contains a plethora of interesting clusters, nebulae and stars. AE aurigae, a runaway star, lights the flaming star nebula IC405 around 1500 LY away (to the right of my image). IC410 the tadpole nebula on the centre, is 2200 LY away - the tadpoles are just about visible. IC417 the spider is after the fly (NGC 1931). Finally the lovely open clusters M38 at the top of the frame and M36 left.

Waiting for Auriga to clear the lum, and dodging cloud, I managed just 4.5 hours using UV/IR and UHC-L booster filters to retain good star colour and bring out the nebulosity. Taken at 100mm f5.6 using my SLR camera lens.

This time calibrated and stacked in Nebulosity v4, processed in Siril with my now standard Starnet removal, GHS stretch, Astrosharp and simple noise reduction. No doubt more data would improve SNR and saturation. I find the 2x2 binned data the cleanest.

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