Cosmic Tadpoles (IC 410) (Peter Kennett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: HD242820 · HD242855 · HD242908 · HD242926 · HD242935 · IC 410 · LBN 807 · NGC 1893 · Sh2-236

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Cosmic Tadpoles (IC 410)

Here's my latest work from the New Mexico Cosmos observatory. This is part of IC 410, an emission nebula located in the constellation of Auriga at an estimated distance of 10,000 light-years. The nebula itself surrounds a young galactic cluster of stars that was formed in the interstellar cloud about 4 million years ago. The hot, bright cluster of stars energize the glowing gasses in the area and the intense radiation and stellar winds of the cluster have sculpted the two tadpole-shaped structures located in the lower right of this image. Composed of denser, cooler globules and knots of gas and dust, the tadpoles are about 10 light-years long and is a stellar nursery of ongoing star formation. Their "heads" are outlined by bright edges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central region.

To capture this image, I combined three narrow band images that captured Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III and Sulfur II. I then added in the stars which I captured using regular RGB filters.

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RA (center)	05h22m31s.293
RA (top/left)	05h21m13s.722
RA (top/right)	05h23m21s.614
RA (bottom/right)	05h23m49s.900
RA (bottom/left)	05h21m40s.697

Dec (center)	+33°27′38″.56
Dec (top/left)	+33°20′28″.61
Dec (top/right)	+33°13′23″.70
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°34′45″.15
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°41′52″.36

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