The flaming star nebula, IC 405. From Wikipedia, the nebula measures approximately 37.0' x 19.0', and lies about 1,500 light-years away from Earth. It is believed that the proper motion of the central star can be traced back to the Orion's Belt area. The nebula is about 5 light-years across.
In close proximity to the Flaming star are several other including Tadpoles, Spider and Fly.
Taken January 7, 2024.
This is a 4 panel mosaic sot in narrowband using sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen filters. I used th SVBony 102mm and ASI2600MM.
Taken December 30, 2023.
Here is just the Flaming star nebula taken just before the mosaic project. Here I shot the nebula in HOO, but added RGB stars. While I do like the golds here in the stars, there was a lot of extra effort to capture truer star color.
Taken November 27, 2022.
I liked the framing here. 2022 was a good year for my astrophotgraphy. I got a new telescope at 710mm focal length.
Taken November 27, 2022.
My first scope was the William Optics Z61. Right around the same time as the image above, I took a wider field shot also in narrow band. My processing was a little off and I lost some details in the center of the image.
Taken January 12, 2022.
I always liked this cropped in starless image of the nebula and bright star AE Aurigae.
Taken January 12, 2022.
Uncropped version of above. I thought the stars came out very sharp.
Taken November 8, 2021.
One of my first mosaics, this was two panels shot with the Z61 at 370mm. Shown as starless mosaic and single panel starless.
Taken February 3, 2021.
This is getting back to some of my early flaming star work. I had just gotten the Lenhance filter and was using a color astro camera, the ASi294MC. The mono image is the red channel from the Lenhance filter showing the Hydrogen alpha emmission.
Taken December 22, 2020.
My first image of the Flaming Star nebula! I shot this using a DSLR camera, and Sky Adventurer star tracker. Thanks for reading!
