Observation by David Bennett: IC410 The Tadpoles nebula

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David Bennett

Observer

David Bennett

Observed

2024 Jan 17 - 00:00

Uploaded

2024 Jan 23 - 00:24

Objects

IC410

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Constellation

Auriga

Field centre

RA: 05^h22^m
Dec: +33°24'
Position angle: +90°33'

Field size

0°38' × 0°25'

Equipment

12" GSO RC Telescope.
ASI 2600MM Pro.
Antlia Narrow band filters

Exposure

180secs mostly

Location

Nailsea

Target name

IC 410 Tadpoles nebula

Title

IC410 The Tadpoles nebula

About this image

There’s Pond Life out there!

During the recent good weather I managed to accumulate a total of 22.4 hours of integration time centred on IC410, affectionately known as the Tadpoles Nebula. I used the Hubble palette, Sii as red, H-alpha as green and Oiii as blue. Imaged using an ASI 2600MM Pro camera with a focal reducer and my 12″ RC telescope.

IC410 can be found in the southern half of the Auriga pentagon and is approximately 12,000 ly from earth. The tadpole features are said to be about 10 ly long.

This is stellar nursery and the central stars form the open cluster NGC1893. I used StarShrink and StarXterminator from RC-Astro to remove the stars from the image before stretching the nebulae then put them back at the end. They are a little underdone so as not to distract from the nebula. Capture was done using Stellarmate and Post processing with Affinity Photo.

Working on an RGB version and improvements to this SHO image with the aim of identifying features mentioned in scientific papers.

If you are able to view this image at large scale I hope you get a sense of depth in the pond. The dark molecular clouds are floating on the surface with the tadpoles looking towards the bottom.

Files associated with this observation

SHO_100pc_80q.jpg (2.0 MB)

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