A dusty emission nebula called IC410 lies roughly 12,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Auriga. It is a component of the Flaming Star Nebula's bigger star-forming zone. The open star cluster NGC1893, which is located in the nebula's centre, emits radiation that illuminates the gas formations in this image. Although this star cluster has hot, massive stars and is roughly 4 million years old, from an astronomical perspective it is still extremely young. Two more thick formations can be seen at the star cluster's top-left.
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These resemble the well-known Pillar of Creation and are made of gas and dust left over from the star cluster's development. They are quite likely to conceive new stars shortly. These formations, as visible in the image, point away from the nebula's centre. The stellar winds and radiation pressure from the stars in NGC 1893 are to blame for this. The nebula is also known as the Tadpoles Nebula because of the shape of these structures.
The above picture was taken with my usual go-to setup which consisted of the following:
- Scope – Celestron RASA 8
- Mount - Skywatcher EQ6 R Pro
- Guide scope – ZWO 30mm
- Guide Camera – ZWO ASI 120mm mini
- Main Camera – ZWO Asi 533mc Pro
- Control box – ZWO ASIAIR Pro
- Filter – IDAS NBZ Nebula Booster 2”
- Starizona Filter drawer next to the camera sensor
- Fox Halo 96k power bank
- Dew heater with its own power bank on the guide scope
- Main scope Celestron ring dew heater powered though ASIAir
- All the data was stacked with DeepSkyStacker and Processed in Pixinsight. (Other software is available which is free and will is linked in the information tab)