Instrument

12.5" RCOS @  ~f/9 (2880 mm fl) 0.643 arcsec / pixel.  The Zoomify image scale is 1.08 to 3.17 arcsec / pixel.

Mount

Paramount ME

Camera

SBIG STL-11000 w/ internal filter wheel, AstroDon Filters

Acquisition Data

11/4/2009 to 11/26/2009 Chino Valley, AZ... with CCDAutoPilot3 & CCDSoft.

Exposure

Lum    180 min (12 x 15 min, bin 1x1)

RGB    270 min (  6 x 15 min each, bin 2x2)

Click here for the narrow band color mapped images.
Click here for an Ha filtered b/w version.

Software

CCDSoft, CCDStack, Photoshop CS w/ the Fits Liberator plugin and Noel Carboni's actions.

eXcalibrator for (b-v) color calibration, using 10 stars from the NOMAD1 database.

PixFix32 (pre-beta) to repair hot/cold pixels and column defects.

CCDStack to calibrate, register, normalize, data reject, combine the sub exposures & LRGB color combine.

PhotoShop for LLRGB combine &  on-linear stretching.

North is to the right.

IC 410 is at a distance of about 12,000 light-years, toward the constellation Auriga. The emission nebula surrounds NGC 1893, a young star cluster, which energizes the gas. At the upper right are two interesting objects, about 10 light-years long, that are commonly named "The Tadpoles." Their creation by stellar winds and radiation is most evident in that the Tadpole's tails point directly away from the nebula's central star cluster.