Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1805
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Heart Nebula, David McClain
Heart Nebula
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Heart Nebula

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Heart Nebula, David McClain
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Heart Nebula

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First light of this season... After a very extended monsoon season, I uncovered the telescope tonight and found that we had survived all the lightning strikes and rainfall. No touch up to the alignment at all. Looks like a little tweak of the collimation is in order. The only degradation to the equipment was a bit of tarnish on the USB connectors.

Given the paucity of stars in the western side of this image, I have to conclude that we are seeing an encroaching dark cloud, overlaying the lit up HII region.

There is so much to be seen in this region. Having the SHO data from DSW really helped to make sense of it all. ( http://www.astrobin.com/256929/?nc=user )

This image is RGB taken from the Atik OSC and then drizzle integrated. Some field star reduction was applied to give the background nebula more overall emphasis. The exposures were all unguided.

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Heart Nebula, David McClain