Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1805  ·  Sh2-190

Image of the day 10/04/2015

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Heart Nebula center - DSLR Ha - combined with old RGB data, Thomas Richter
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Heart Nebula center - DSLR Ha - combined with old RGB data

Image of the day 10/04/2015

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Heart Nebula center - DSLR Ha - combined with old RGB data, Thomas Richter
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Heart Nebula center - DSLR Ha - combined with old RGB data

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Because of moonlight i took pictures with Ha filter.

I combined it with some old RGB data.

Unfortunately the result is very noisy :-(

Link to the RGB data:

http://www.astrobin.com/125485/C/



Object description (wikipedia.org):

The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sh2-190, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and darker dust lanes. The nebula is formed by plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons.

The very brightest part of this nebula (the knot at the right) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of this nebula to be discovered.

The nebula's intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun's mass. The cluster used to contain a microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago.

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Heart Nebula center - DSLR Ha - combined with old RGB data, Thomas Richter

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