Flaming Star Nebula (IC 405)

The “Flaming Star” nebula is about 1,500 lightyears from Earth and 5 lightyears across.

Check out https://app.astrobin.com/i/legv0r for the full frame photo (which includes the Tadpole 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