The “Tadpole” nebula is about 12,000 lightyears from Earth and over 100 lightyears across.
Check out https://app.astrobin.com/i/legv0r for the full frame photo (which includes the Flaming Star as well!).
Light frames: 49 x 300s, total integration time 4 hours 5 minutes.
Equipment:
- Telescope: Apertura 90mm Triplet Refractor
- Reducer/Flattener: Apertura 0.8x (R-FLAT)
- Main camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Filter: Optolong L-Ultimate 2"
- Mount: ZWO AM5N
- Guidescope: Apertura 32mm
- Guide camera: ZWO ASI220MM Mini
Processing:
- Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
- RC Astro BlurXTerminator
- RC Astro NoiseXTerminator
- RC Astro StarXTerminator
- Adobe Photoshop 2025
by spidermanbyday