IC 405 - Pale Fire (AaronW)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Auriga (Aur) · Contains: AE Aur · Flaming Star Nebula · HD241228 · HD241257 · HD241323 · HD241353 · HD241366 · HD241460 · HD241476 · HD241504 · HD241565 · HD241611 · HD241683 · HD241698 · HD241731 · HD241763 · HD241764 · HD241822 · HD241858 · HD241859 · HD241874 · HD241904 · HD241943 · HD241964 · HD241977 · HD241988 · HD241989 · HD242001 · HD242024 · HD242045 · And 55 more.

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IC 405 - Pale Fire

"The moon's an arrant thief, and her pale fire she snatches from the sun."

Timon of Athens
Act IV, scene ii

If Shakespeare had known about narrowband filters, equatorial mounts, and CMOS camera sensors, he might have written these lines about AE Aurigae, the variable runaway star that is presently passing through and illuminating an interstellar cloud of gas and dust and giving rise to what is known as the Flaming Star nebula.

This framing evokes for me the feeling of falling into this cauldron and whirlpool of ionized gas. 17 nights were necessary to get 37 hours of data as this was captured late in the season and the object wasn't above my horizon for more than two hours during the night toward the end.

Processed in the Hubble palette in PixInsight.

I hope you enjoy!

Best,
Aaron

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7175400
PixInsight job	SU6IZID71WBNV2GWV3P1CI80B5K8L1UG
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	05h15m16s.792
RA (top/left)	05h10m25s.693
RA (top/right)	05h16m23s.404
RA (bottom/right)	05h20m10s.713
RA (bottom/left)	05h14m08s.501

Dec (center)	+34°05′58″.90
Dec (top/left)	+33°34′06″.20
Dec (top/right)	+32°59′00″.83
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°36′55″.49
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°12′32″.62

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