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The Soul Nebula IC1848, Terry Hancock

The Soul Nebula IC1848

The Soul Nebula IC1848, Terry Hancock

The Soul Nebula IC1848

Description

IC 1848, the “Soul Nebula”, lies just 2.5º southeast of the “Heart”. Bottom left is part of lesser known emission Nebula SH2-202

While it’s a little hard to say what a soul looks like, in some images this nebula looks very much like a small human body, or perhaps a fetus. Like the “Heart”, the Soul Nebula is just barely visible in a small telescope at low power with a good filter in a telescope in dark sky. - See more at: oneminuteastronomer.com/7891/heart-soul-nebulae/#sthash.S...

Total Integration time 3.5 Hours

Image details

Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI

Date of Shoot: July thru October 2014

H-Alpha 120 min, 15 x 8 min bin 1x1

RGB 90 min, 10 x 3 min each bin 1x1

QHY11 monochrome CCD cooled to -10C

Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph

Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount

Image Acquisition Maxim DL

Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack

Post Processing Photoshop CS5

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The Soul Nebula IC1848, Terry Hancock