M38

Sunday night saw a few hours free from the winds thats been hounding us Brits.

So I took the opportunity to look East. M38 (NGC 1912) is a lovely target with plenty to fill the field of view.

M38 (left of centre) as you know lies approx 4200 light years away in the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer.
                       Dead centre in my image is NGC1907 about 4700 light years distant. Above and to the right is IC 417 a faint patch of Hydrogen gas spawning a new cluster. Down and right towards the right corner of the image is another fuzzy NGC1931 also known as the small Orion nebula, again a region of starbirth illuminating the surrounding dust and gasses.
The image was taken last sunday approx 60 x 1 minute unguided exposures at ISO1600  No darks or flats taken. The library is steadily building, and stacked in deep sky stacker. A little DDP stretch later and a few pretty star spikes has produced I think a pleasing wide field image to add to the collection.