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Tadpole Nebula (IC410) & NGC 1893 - SHO

RA: 05h 22m 37.23s , Dec: +33° 23′ 48.71″

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The Tadpole Nebula (IC 410) is an H II region located approximately 12,400 light-years away in the constellation Auriga. The cloud of ionized gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893.

 

OTA: AG10 CDK f/6.7

(Gemini Observatory - Lijiang, China)

Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro

Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8RH

Guiding: Unknown

 

Total integration time: 10 hr 0 min

 

Subs:

14 x 600 sec SII (bin x2) mapped to RED channel

31 x 600 sec Ha (bin x2) mapped to GREEN channel

15 x 600 sec OIII (bin x2) mapped to BLUE channel

 

Data acquisition: 08/01/2021 - 05/02/2021 (Alpha Zhang)

Insight Observatory Starbase dataset: IC 410 - HaO3S2 (2022)

 

Calibration, alignment & stacking

Initial processing (channel combination, background removal, non-linear stretch, RC-Astro toolkit): PixInsight

Post-processing & finishing: Photoshop, PSP 2019, Lightroom

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Uploaded on January 20, 2024
Taken on January 20, 2024