(IAAC) Flaming Star nebula - an IAAC challenge!

[Szabó Ádám]

Hello!

It is not impossible to see it even in a 5" or less sized telescope.
Rony de Laet made it with his 15×70 binocular!

http://www.geocities.com/rodelaet/Sketch_IC405_IC410_bino.html

But his sky was SQM 21.35.

I have usually skies between 19.8 and 20.3, and I could catch it with my 6" f/5 Newton with aid of an UHC filter. I could see not only the most prominent region but sometimes hints of the North-South tail.

Ádám Szabó


Lew Gramer <Lew.Gramer at noaa.gov> wrote: 


> Below is a link to a wonderful image of the central region of AUR by an
> amateur in South Florida, USA. I see that frequent IAAC contributor Stephane
> Meloche has attempted to see the Flaming Star nebula (IC405) in binoculars:
> 
>   http://www.visualdeepsky.org/netastrocatalog/msg04618.html
> 
> but was not successful. Surely others have some visual logs of this object, or
> some of the other (still fainter) features that haunt this region? Please
> share them with us! And mean time, clear skies and a Happy New Year to all.
> 
> Lew Gramer
> owner at visualdeepsky.org
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