The constellation of Auriga contains some beautiful expanses of emission nebulae. As shown in the annotated version, this widefield image shows several of these nebulae. The Tadpoles (IC 410 aka Sh2-236) is the red Ha and bluish OIII region towards the middle bottom of the image. Contained within IC 410 is the newly formed star cluster NGC 1893 along with the Tadpoles - an artifact generated from the stellar winds coming off the cluster.

Towards the upper left of the image is the Spider (IC 417 aka Sh2-234) and the diminutive Fly (Sh2-237). The Fly surrounds the open cluster NGC 1931. Directly above the Spider are two more open clusters - NGC 1907 and the much larger and richer M38. (NGC 1912).

The Flaming Star nebula (IC 405/Sh2-229 - upper right in this image) is illuminated by the bright star at its center, AE Aurigae.

In this image, North is up. This image is cropped to 83% of the original full frame.

Exposure Details
Lens	Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM
Focal Length	200mm
Focal Ratio	f/3.5
Mount	Schaefer GEM - 7 1/2 inch Byers gear, piggybacked on Celestron C-8
Guiding	ONAG On-Axis Guider (on C-8 used for piggybacking), Lodestar autoguider, PHD Guiding
Camera	MonoMods Monochrome Canon 450D by Luis Campos for narrowband data, Gary Honis modified Canon 450D (Baader Mod) for RGB
Exposure	43x600 sec @ ISO 1600 (7 1/6 hrs) w/Astronomik 6nm Ha clip filter, 64x600 sec @ISO 1600 (10 2/3 hrs) w/Astronomik 12nm OIII clip filter, plus 19x600 @ ISO 1600 (3 1/6 hrs) for RGB (21 hours total)
Calibration	30 darks, 30 flats, 30 flat darks, 30 bias
Date	December 30 and 31, 2013; January 1, February 22, March 21 and 22, 2014
Temperature	Typically 40F to 50F
SQM Reading	Bortle 4 on all 4 nights, 12/30-21.15, 12/31-21.20, 1/1-21.00, 2/22-21.50, 3/21- 21.50, 3/24-21.50
Seeing	2/5 on 3/24, 3/5 on 3/21, 4/5 on 12/30, 12/31, 1/1, and 2/22
Location	Pine Mountain Club, California
Software Used	Images Plus 5.75 for camera control, calibration, and stacking. Images Plus 6.5 for arcsinh stretching, feature mask, star size and halo reduction, smoothing and noise reduction, color channel splitting and recombination, feature mask, edge mask extraction, and masked stretching. Photoshop CS5 used for levels and curves, high pass filter, screen mask invert, lab color, saturation adjustments, selective color, match color and unsharp mask. Gradient Xterminator for gradient removal. Carboni Tools for additional noise reduction and smoothing. HLVG for additional color correction. Registar for stack alignment and registration. Pixinsight 1.8 for star mask generation, plate solving, and image annotation.
Notes	It took me two years to get around to processing this image, but I'm glad I finally did. I found the variety of objects in this image to make for a fascinating field of view.