First session of the new year. Usual settings, usual lack of enough frames. I have been taking the colour frames as 1x1 but I think maybe I ought to revert to 4x4? Will try tonight.
NGC 1579 (also known as the Northern Trifid) is a diffuse nebula located in the constellation of Perseus. It is referred to as the Northern Trifid because of its similar appearance to the Trifid Nebula, which is located in the southern celestial hemisphere of the sky. It is a H II region, a region of star formation.
The star cluster contains the emission-line star LkHα 101, which provides much of the ionizing radiation in the nebula.
NGC 1579 lies within a giant molecular cloud known as the California Molecular Cloud.
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