The Tadpoles (IC 410)

[Christopher K.]

IC 410 is a very faint emission nebula 12,000 light-years away in Auriga. Sulfur, hydrogen and oxygen atoms are present in varying quantities.

A composite, false-color image of the Tadpoles was the 9 January APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140109.html

[Christopher K.]

Daniel B. Phillips used a 7.2-inch Takahashi reflector to image IC 410. He exposed to RGB only for a few minutes each, choosing to use the lion's share of the exposure time for hydrogen-alpha, OIII and SII. The picture is on page 72 of the November Astronomy.

[Christopher K.]

The home constellation of the tadpoles is now setting with the Sun as we near mid-spring, but we can still appreciate heavy-process images like the one provided by the WISE staff. This time, the image favors the infrared...
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200128.html