Heart of the Heart - Melotte 15 (Pete Bouras)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1805

Heart of the Heart - Melotte 15, Pete Bouras

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Heart of the Heart - Melotte 15

The classic heart of the heart, this is a SHO image taken over 3 nights.
Completely reprocessed in PI April 23, SHO processing, using BlurX, basic stretch and channels combined into SHO image and RGB image.
NoiseX and StarX, then used Bill Blanshan's SHONormalization v.5, to tweak color palette for SHO image.
some curve work, and color tweaks and sharpening.
SPCC for the RGB star calibration, BlurX, stretch, NoiseX and StarX to extract the stars and create the starless layers.
Curves and then rescreen RGB stars back into SHO image

Thanks for looking,
Clear Skies!
-Pete

The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running dog nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula,
7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia.
It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787.
It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.

The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center.
This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26 or Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of the Sun,
and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of the Sun's mass. (wikipedia)

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Description: tweaks for color, contrast and stars

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Description: Reprocessed, utilizing Bill Blanshan's SHONormalization v.5, as well we as reprocessed the RGB stars

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