IC 405, IC 410 and Surrounding Objects in Auriga

A wide-field view made with an Epsilon-130D astrograph in Auriga in the Winter Milky Way captures light from stars, star clusters and nebula looking out into the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. The most prominant objects are the Flaming Star nebula (IC 405) in the right center of the field and The Tadpole Nebula (IC 410) in the left lower field. The annotated image link above provides a guide to other structures in the field including M38, the Spider Nebula and major stars.

• Location/Date: Gainesville FL, January 29 and 30, 2022
• Telescope: Takahashi E-130D
• Camera/Filters: QHY600M with QHYCFW3L filter wheel / Astrodon RGB and Ha filters
• Guidescope/Guider: Altair 60mm guidescope (225mm); Starlight Express Lodestar X2 guide camera
• Mount: Astro-Physics 1100GTO
• Image Acquisition/Guiding Software: N.I.N.A./PHD2
• Image Processing: PixInsight 1.8.8-12; Photoshop CS6
• Captures: 200s subframes RGB and Ha subframes (20 to 21 each)