IC405 'The Flaming Star' nebula in HA

Last Thursday I got a good run at 'The flaming Star Nebula' around AE Aurigae.

No kidding Dave! This is an excellent result and I really like it.

Auriga is now prime for observation and imaging and I would like to nail M36, M37, M38, IC405 and IC410. Hopefully we can compare notes over the next few days and weeks.

This is an excellent reference image you have put up!

Very nice Dave!

Cannot wait to see it in colour

Later,

Jed.

Dave - that's probably your best image to date. And probably the best nebula image on these boards given its difficulty.

For 5 minute subs, your tracking must be very good. But over two hours worth of data really do show.

I see (on my monitor) what looks like a left to right gradient on the last right hand side of the image. Since you took flats, I'm assuming its correctable via processing techniques. But then, if you manage to get RGB data, perhaps it'll go away. That said, its only just perceptible anyhow.

Well done on investing the time in this image and thanks for sharing. the bar just keeps going up and up!

Dave

I just saw that you took this from Raheny in Dublin :shock:
Those HA filters do a great job !!

Holy cow! :shock: That's one for the magazines.

Hi Guys, thanks for all the kind comments. Funy thing is, I seem to be the only one not happy with this image!!

However I do accept that the large dataset certainly shows in this one.

I plan to improve this image a bit further by adding some more frames to the luminance and adding colour too. Might be the last chance tonight before the Moon comes back.

Anthony, I can't wait to see your IC405 result. I found this nebula a lot easier than I thought. The other thing of course is that my image only shows the emission nebulosity. There is a whole heap of blue reflection nebulosity which won't show through a HA filter. Hopefully the colour data will capture this. Here's what I thought about doing;

Combining the RGB data to a colour frame and then extracting the luminance, add this to my HA luminance. This should provide a luminance frame with both the emission and refection nebulosity showing. The next thing would be to colorise the lot with the same RGB data (combining the HA with the R channel). Anything I'm missing here?