IC410 The Tadpoles

Technical card

Imaging telescope or lens: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200

Imaging camera: FLI MicroLine 8300 CCD-camera FLI

Mount: Paramount-ME

Guiding telescope or lens: Borg 77 ED

Software: Pixinsight 1.8

Filters: Ha 5nm, OIII 5nm, SII 5nm

Accessories: FLI Atlas, Starlight Xpress lodestar 2

Resolution: 3065x2352

Dates: Dec. 4, 2016, Dec. 5, 2016

Frames:

Ha 5nm: 31x600" bin 1x1

OIII 5nm: 36x600" bin 1x1

SII 5nm: 35x600" bin 1x1

Integration: 17.0 hours

Locations: FOVO - Field of View Observatory, Home, Worcestershire, United Kingdom

 

Here we have a look at IC410 and its famous tadpoles. Spent some time on this trying to realise some of the colours in the central area rather than it just showing as a solid blue area. Quite a few iterations needed to get it to have colour (rather than just a grey feature!) but happy with the results so far.

IC 410 is c.12000 light years from earth with each tadpole an astonishing c.10ly in size.

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