Nicola Beltraminelli captured this spectacular shot of IC 410 in Auriga with his SVX180T. This emission nebula is part of IC 1893, better known as the Tadpole Nebula. IC 410 is about 12,400 light-years away from Earth and over 100 light-years across. It is surrounded by 5 massive stars which emit high-energy ultraviolet protons, causing it to become excited and glow as a result.

According to Nicola:

"As for my previous projects, I wanted to obtain a detailed image illustrating the complexity of the gas components within the nebula. To achieve this, I generated 600s subs in Ha, SII and OIII channels and for Ha I only kept the best ones. As I discarded not far from 100 subs, the cumulative imaging time on this nebula is in the range of 70 hours. Also, to better detect the fine structures of the nebula, this version is an HS-HSO version, with SII contribution in the luminance channel of 25%."

To get more details and an in-depth look at this image, click here for Nicola's AstroBin.

Filters:

Chroma Blue 50 mm

Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 50 mm

Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm

Chroma Red 50 mm

Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm

Software:

Adobe Lightroom Classic

Adobe Photoshop

Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight

Stefan Berg Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy (N.I.N.A. / NINA)