Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  NGC 896
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NGC 896, Mike Freeberg
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NGC 896

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NGC 896

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The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190, 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 ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.

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 is a relatively bright knot on the western side of IC 1795, which is itself a western extension of a much larger more or less heart-shaped emission nebula referred to as the Heart Nebula.

This is the LRGB Data which I plan to Merge with the Ha data I posted earlier.

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NGC 896, Mike Freeberg

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