Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  16 Aur  ·  17 AR Aur  ·  18 Aur  ·  19 Aur  ·  AE Aur  ·  Flaming Star nebula  ·  IC 405  ·  Sh2-229  ·  The star 16Aur  ·  The star 19Aur
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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula (NB+RGB stars), Arun H
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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula (NB+RGB stars)

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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula (NB+RGB stars), Arun H
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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula (NB+RGB stars)

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The nights have been cloudy this January in Wisconsin, but the skies cooperated just enough the night of my birthday for me to take this image. This object has little in the way of OIII emission, so this is a bicolor image.

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Description: Well, the simple method is sometimes the best... this blending of RGB stars works by black clipping the RGB image so only the stars show, then using PixelMath to create a new image that simply takes the brightest parts of the NB and RGB images. Worked better than the more complicated method I used earlier of using the L from the NB image and the a* and b* from the RGB image and adding them though a star mask!

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IC405 - The Flaming Star Nebula (NB+RGB stars), Arun H