IC 410

Emission Nebula, Auriga

November 2008. Cave Creek Canyon Observatory, Arizona Sky Village

NGC 1893 is an open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It is about 12,400 light years away. The star cluster is embedded in the HII region IC 410. Images of the star cluster by the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that it contains approximately 4600 young stellar objects.

Telescope: ASA N16 f3.6
Mount: Astro Physics 1200GTO
Camera: SBIG STL-11000M
Guider: SBIG STL-Remote/BorgMini50

H-alpha: 16×10 mins = 160 mins

Total Imaging Time: 2h 40m

Data Imaged remotely over 1 night during November 2008.
Data acquisition & Processing by David Churchill.