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The Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpole Nebula (IC 405 and IC 410), Harold Soto
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The Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpole Nebula (IC 405 and IC 410)

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The Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpole Nebula (IC 405 and IC 410), Harold Soto
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The Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpole Nebula (IC 405 and IC 410)

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Here is an image of the Flaming Star Nebula captured in narrowband with RGB stars. This image features the nearby Tadpoles Nebula, as well as a number of other deep-sky objects in the surrounding area like open star clusters M36. The Tadpole Nebula lies only about a degree and a half east of the Flaming Star Nebula which contains the open cluster NGC 1893.

Flaming Star Nebula is easy to find because it lies within a conspicuous winter asterism, Auriga’s hexagon. It can be observed with a small telescope in exceptionally good conditions, it can be spotted in a 2.4-inch telescope, but if there is any light pollution, it may not be visible even with larger instruments.

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The name Flaming Star comes from the German astronomer and astrophotographer Max Wolf (1863-1932). Wolf found the nebula while photographing Nova Aurigae 1891. He described the star AE Aurigae as a “burning body from which several enormous curved flames seem to break out like gigantic prominences,” noting that the “flaming star” seemed to be physically associated with the nebulosity.

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The Flaming Star Nebula and the Tadpole Nebula (IC 405 and IC 410), Harold Soto

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