IC-410, The Tadpole Nebula, In Auriga
Description from Astronomy Picture Of The Day
Dusty emission nebula IC 410 lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation
Auriga. The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across,
sculpted by
stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893.
Formed in the interstellar cloud
a mere 4 million years ago, bright cluster stars are seen just below the prominent
dark dust cloud near picture center. Notable near the 7 o'clock position are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula's central regions. Potentially sites of ongoing star formation, these
cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long.
Image:
7 x 420sec = 42 minutes at ISO 800
FOV = 50.7 x 76.1 arcmin
Image Scale = 1.17 arcsec/pix
Processed using DeepSky Stacker and Adobe Photoshop CS3
Image taken on January 4, 2011 at the Louisville Astronomical Society James Baker Center for Astronomy
Equipment:
Camera:
Hutech Modified Canon T1i with Baader MPCC Coma Corrector and Baader UV/IR cut astronomical filter
Telescope:
200mm f5 modified Konus Newtonian
Guiding:
80mm f5 Orion Shorty refractor with Orion Starshooter Autoguide camera using PhD guiding software
Mount:
Losmandy G-11 German equatorial mount with Gemini Go To controller
Tripod:
Losmandy Heavy Duty Telescope Tripod
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IC-410, The Tadpole Nebula, In Auriga
