IC405 with lots of friends (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 21 Aur) · 24 Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · IC 410 · IC 417 · LBN 783 · LBN 784 · LBN 787 · LBN 791 · LBN 794 · LBN 795 · LBN 796 · LBN 804 · LBN 807 · LBN 810 · LDN 1510 · LDN 1516 · LDN 1526 · LDN 1530 · M 38 · NGC 1893 · NGC 1907 · NGC 1912 · NGC 1931 · PGC 101338 · PGC 168928 · PGC 168936 · PGC 168943 · PGC 168944 · And 40 more.

IC405 with lots of friends

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Last month I finally went up to Mt Pinos on a clear new moon. I went after IC405 with my wide field rig (I love the ASKAR 300) and adjusted the FOV to also capture M38. Kind of shocked by all the deep items we go after in this area...I didn't know they were all connected. The Tads came out pretty good with this focal length of 299mm (Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests that Tads contain approximately 4,600 young stellar objects). I was also surprised by this areas strong Oiii signal. The Spider is visible but certainly needs more focal length. I think there's a PN at 21:15 at left edge but it didn't plate solve. I did drizzle at 1.3 to tighten up the detail causing the integrated masters to be over 500MBs. But my new Apple M2 Studio Ultra 🤑 is a beast and a half and handled the heavy processing really well...didn't even get hot. This is an SHO image with RGB stars. Heavily processed using SPCC, BXT, NXT, SXT, Bill's Narrowband Normalization, GHS, Bill's Screen Stars, masks, etc etc. Really a lot of fun to process...many different tries. It was really good to finally have some time for this avocation. I'm pleased with this one. Hope you enjoy and have some fun. -john

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RA (center)	05h21m46s.17
RA (top/left)	05h10m37s.61
RA (top/right)	05h10m57s.45
RA (bottom/right)	05h32m02s.44
RA (bottom/left)	05h33m26s.11

Dec (center)	+34°26′15″.6
Dec (top/left)	+37°48′57″.10
Dec (top/right)	+31°03′56″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+31°00′11″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+37°44′29″.1

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