Saturday 12 January 2013

The Flaming Star Nebula


IC405 The Flaming star nebula . This emission and reflection nebula lies at a distance of about 1,500 light years in the constellation of Auriga . This guided image was taken using a ten inch, f/4.8 reflector with an Atik 383L CCD camera . The exposure times were forty minutes for each RGB colour filter and sixty minutes in H-alpha . Five minute sub frames were captured and corrected with matching dark frames .



Nick Hart