Nebulae

NGC 1893 IN AURIGA NARROWBAND

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Equipment and exposition:

Tecnosky Apo Triplet 115
ATIK 314L with Starlight Usb filter wheel, Astronomik Filters 31,8
Guided with Starlight Lodestar with Orion OAG
Neq6 Geoptik Modded
8 x 900 sec in Ha channel
9 x 900 sec in O3 channel
(Bicolor Technique)
Processed with Maximdl,Photoshop,DSS,DSS Live
SIte : Lusernetta, West Alps, Italy.



About this object:

A faint, dusty rose of the northern sky, emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of glowing hydrogen gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright cluster stars are seen just below the prominent dark dust cloud near picture center. Notable near the 7 o'clock position in this wide, detailed view are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions. Potentially sites of ongoing star formation, these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long.

Bibliography: NASA Apod




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