The Flaming Charioteer (Terry Hancock)

The Flaming Charioteer

The Flaming Star and Tadpole Nebulae also known as IC405 and Caldwell 31, lying at a distance of approximately 1500 light years from us in the constellation Auriga this object is a combination of emission and reflection Nebulae. Visible towards the top right in this image is IC410/Sharpless 236 otherwise known as The Tadpoles lying at a much further distance of 12,000 light years, this faint Emission Nebula is energized by the neighboring Star Cluster NGC1893.

My latest process of IC405 otherwise known as the Flaming Star Nebula and

IC410 otherwise known as The Tadpoles using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our

subscriptions) using the new QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera with Chroma Narrowband Filters.

In this Hubble Palette version the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. Then I used the naturally colored stars from the broadband image, while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.

Captured over 4 nights in December 2019 and January 2020 for a total acquisition time of 22.3 hours.

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado Dates of Capture December 21, 30 2019, January 4, 5 2020 HA 360 min 24 x 900 sec OIII 300 min 20 x 900 sec SII 360 min 24 x 900 sec RGB 320 min 32 x 600 sec Narrowband Filters by Chroma "5nm"

Camera: QHY367 Pro C

Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5 EQ Mount:

Paramount ME Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC

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