Auriga Widefield

Orientation: star field, Milky-Way in lower mid-Auriga.  The bright red star in the lower half of the picture to the left is KW Aurigae a double variable.  The bright blue star at 11 o' clock to it is 16 Aur with its counterpart to the right.  10 o' clock to that is 19 Aur with its multiple counterpart 18 Aur to the right.  The bright blue star at 2 o' clock to 19 Aur is AE Aur, the flaming star around which is IC405.  The central portion of the picture has hydrogen nebulosity which I was hoping to catch with this picture but I don't think the exposure was anywhere near long enough.

Date: 04/04/07    Time: 2330hrs   Location: Sunningwell   Temperature: 11.5ºC

Camera: Nikon D80 piggyback mounted on LX90   Lens: Nikkor 70-300mm F4.5 zoom at 300mm  ISO: 1000   Exposures: 9x120 seconds  F-stop: 6.3   Guidance: Autoguided

Post-processing: dark-frame subtraction, light-frame stacking (average), field flattening, white and dark point setting, midtone enhancement with Photoshop.

 Comments: Longer exposure time might have caught the beautiful red nebulosity centred around AE Auriga

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