IC405 / Caldwell 31 the Flaming Star Nebula 16/01/23
The Flaming Star Nebula is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. It located about 1,500 light years from Earth.
This is the first time I've imaged this target, and I photographed it from Oxfordshire with an astro-modded Canon 1100D fitted with a light pollution clip filter and attached to a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount. The mount is on a permanent pier and it was tracking at sidereal rate.
89 x 90 second exposures at ISO-3200 stacked with 35 darks. I had much more data but thin cloud passing through meant I had ditch quite a few frames. This target definitely needs more data!
Processing was done in Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
I didn't manage to fully prevent my stars from bloating so I added some star spikes to try to make them a bit better!
IC405 / Caldwell 31 the Flaming Star Nebula 16/01/23
The Flaming Star Nebula is an emission and reflection nebula in the constellation Auriga. It located about 1,500 light years from Earth.
This is the first time I've imaged this target, and I photographed it from Oxfordshire with an astro-modded Canon 1100D fitted with a light pollution clip filter and attached to a William Optics 70mm refractor on an EQ5 Pro mount. The mount is on a permanent pier and it was tracking at sidereal rate.
89 x 90 second exposures at ISO-3200 stacked with 35 darks. I had much more data but thin cloud passing through meant I had ditch quite a few frames. This target definitely needs more data!
Processing was done in Photoshop CS2 and Fast Stone Image Viewer.
I didn't manage to fully prevent my stars from bloating so I added some star spikes to try to make them a bit better!