IC405

Flaming Star Nebula”

Constellation- Auriga

Right Ascension: 5h 16m 54s

Declination: =34° 21' 22"

Distance: ~1500 light years

Visual Brightness: ~10 mag

Apparent Dimension: 50x30 arc minutes

Image information-

Date taken- December 20^th, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -30C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- HaGB = 20 x 600 seconds binned 1x1, GB = 10 x 300 seconds each

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, color combined in AstroArt2.0, levels and curves in Photoshop CS