Date Posted: 6/20/2024
Date Taken: 10/14/2015, 10/15/2015, 10/23/2015
Scope: Planewave CDK 12.5 f/8, 2541mm
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Guiding: SSAG, Celestron 80mm guide scope, 600mm.
Exposure: LRGB 150:80:80:80 All subs 5min. Luminance unbinned, RGB binned 2x2.

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack2; RGB combine and DDP with MaximDL. Processed with CS4.

IC 405, aka the Flaming Star Nebula, is a large emission and reflection nebula complex. The bluish reflection nebula is background dust reflecting the light if the bright blue star AE Aurigae. The nebula is about 1500 light years distant, and 5 light years across. Proper motion studies of AE Aurigae indicate that it originated near Orion's Belt. IC 405 is also catalogued as SH2-229 and Caldwell 31.

This is a 2024 partial re-process of the 2015 image, using StarXTerminator and StarShrink to enhance the nebula.