This presentation of IC 1805 and 1848 is the result of a group effort of the Fort Worth Astronomical Society. The group collected approximately 100+ hours of data. The Club, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, was one of the first adult amateur astronomy clubs in the United States and is now one of the largest, with over 200 active members.
The data comprising the attached image was collected and processed by the following members of the Club (listed in alphabetical order):
Christopher Ashford
Trevor Bray
William Garver
Stephen Kennedy
George Lutch
Jim Potts
Robert Sirkis
The club members considered several different processed iterations of the image and ultimately selected a version processed by
@Trevor Bray.
IC1805 and 1848 are a pair of emission nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia, with the former taking the shape of a human heart. They are part of the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, about 6,000–7,500 light-years from Earth. The nebulae are a collection of star-forming regions, emission nebulas, and dark dust lanes.
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