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IC405 - Flaming Star, Brian Namovicz
IC405 - Flaming Star, Brian Namovicz

IC405 - Flaming Star

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IC405 - Flaming Star, Brian Namovicz
IC405 - Flaming Star, Brian Namovicz

IC405 - Flaming Star

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The Flaming Star Nebula is both an emission and reflection nebula approximately 1500 light years away in the constellation of Auriga.

Capturing and processing the emission and reflection components presents a fun challenge. The emission nebula was captured with narrowband filters with the vast majority of the signal being in Ha and Sii, this was processed in a modified SHO palette using PixelMath. The reflection component  was captured with broadband LRGB filters and processed separately. The SHO and LRGB images were blended together in Photoshop to show both the structure of the Ha/Sii emissions and the smokey reflection nebula around the star AE Aur.

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IC405 - Flaming Star, Brian Namovicz