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Prabhakaran A
Mleiha, UAE
01/09/2022
01:00 am

Equipment Details:

GSO 8" RC - TSCCD67 reducer - ZWO 294MM Pro Camera - Antlia 3nm SHO filters, 7 Position 36mm filter wheel - AZEQ6 Mount (ZWO OAG with ZWO224MC cam for guiding)

Post-processing Details:

Pixinsight - Stacking, SHO Combination, DBE, MSLT, HT, pixel math, CC, CurvesT, SCNR, Deconvolution, LHE, MorphologicalT.

Image Details:

The Tadpoles of IC 410:
This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410. It also features two remarkable inhabitants of the cosmic pond of gas and dust below and left of center, the tadpoles of IC 410. Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, the intensely hot, bright cluster stars energize the glowing gas. Composed of denser cooler gas and dust, the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long and are likely sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by winds and radiation from the cluster stars, their heads are outlined by bright ridges of ionized gas while their tails trail away from the cluster's central region. IC 410 lies some 10,000 light-years away, toward the nebula-rich constellation Auriga.