Images for December 2013

I had two good nights at Lockwood Valley, CA. Saturday and Sunday were both pretty nice and I managed to get two images, one each night.

Auriga was in the right area and provided all night availability so I decided to image objects there.

I picked two objects that I had not done before. I always like to do new stuff.

First night I did The Flaming Star IC405. LRGB and 2 hours each filter.

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p12146-the-flaming-star.html

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Then the second one was The Spider and the Fly IC417 and NGC1931. This got the same exposure, 8 hours and two hours per filter.

http://www.astrophotogallery.org/floyd-s-pics/p12145-spider-and-the-fly.html

This is a neat object and bigger than I thought it would be and more colorful too. Both objects were a surprise for me, I did not expect them to be a bright and saturated.

I have also reprocessed this to show the red carbon stars in the photo. There are several with the largest being in the left upper part. I did not realize they were carbon stars until I researched them. They were very red in my original data and I thought they were an anomaly, but they were natural.

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Nice! Your images never disappoint.