IC 405 - The Flaming Star OR Jabba The Hutt (Carl)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: 16 Aur · 17 AR Aur · 18 Aur · 19 Aur · AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · IC 405 · Sh2-229 · The star 16 Aur · The star 17 Aur · The star 18 Aur · The star 19 Aur

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IC 405 - The Flaming Star OR Jabba The Hutt

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IC 405 - The Flaming Star OR Jabba The Hutt

This winter weather has been pretty brutal, especially when it comes to clear skies for astronomy. The past few nights had a few hours of clear (ish) skies each, and that was the first since over a month prior. With another week of clouds and rain forecast, I am happy to be able to squeeze in my first few hours of data on IC 405, the Flaming Star Nebula. In this orientation, it also strikes me as a silhouette of Jabba the Hutt, in his full-on slug, mobile form.

I continue to play with noise reduction at various stages of post-processing. I think I'm getting closer to a balance that I like. The color combination is straight HSO with some tweaks to hues and saturation to tamp down the stars a bit. Without any real nebulosity in OIII to speak of, at least in this data, I didn't try to explore the more colorful Hubble palette techniques - although it is still on my to-do list.

Anyways, please enjoy this giant space slug - I mean - Flaming Star.

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RA (center)	05h16m09s.586
RA (top/left)	05h20m27s.921
RA (top/right)	05h19m02s.161
RA (bottom/right)	05h11m45s.527
RA (bottom/left)	05h13m21s.419

Dec (center)	+34°15′55″.12
Dec (top/left)	+33°22′13″.82
Dec (top/right)	+35°23′02″.82
Dec (bottom/right)	+35°09′02″.29
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°08′30″.20

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