November 9, 2015

Last night was another one of those glorious fall nights, with mild temps and an occasional brilliant Taurid meteor streaking overhead. I would have stayed up imaging even longer except for some high smoke that drifted in from a controlled burn somewhere near Flagstaff. Once again I had fun with my friend Bill Burke's excellent vintage 6-inch Astro Physics refractor, with it's outstanding contrast and sharp optics.

This object, IC-405 aka The Flaming Star Nebula in Auriga, is one of my favorite and most beautiful star emission and reflection nebulae. This image is a composite of 3 x 5 minute exposures with the Canon 6D shooting at ISO 6400 and an IDAS LpS-V4 filter. It was then combined with an earlier image taken with my TMB-130 refractor with the same camera and filter. Cumulative exposure is bout 30 minutes.

Klaus Brasch