IC 405 and IC 410

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About this Image

IC 405 (to the left) and IC 410 (to the right) are a nice pair of faint H-II areas in the constellation Auriga. IC 405, also known as the Flaming Star Nebula shows a distinct blue reflection nebula and very turbulent shock waves.
IC 410 shows 2 little "worms" that are winding towards the center, see the 100% crop below.
North is down.

Below you find a pure H-alpha image of this area.

At bottom you find a crop on the "worms" in IC 410 at 100% size.

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Technical Details
Optics

105mm TMB refractor with flattener at f/6.5

Mount MK100 GEM
Camera SBIG STL-11000M at -30C, internal filter wheel
Filters Astronomik H-alpha (15 nm) + RGB
Date Nov 21, 2004.
Location Wildon/Austria
Sky Conditions mag 5.5, good transparency, temperature 0 C,
Exposure Ha = 225 min (15-minute sub-exposures),
RGB= 30:30:30 min (10-minute sub-exposures)
Processing Image aquisition in Maxim DL 4.0; Image calibration, aligning, mean stacking, DDP and color synthesis in ImagesPlus;
Photoshop: H-alpha blended to red and L channel; cropped, Noise reduction by Neatimage;