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The Heart & Fish Head Nebulae, Terry Hancock

The Heart & Fish Head Nebulae

The Heart & Fish Head Nebulae, Terry Hancock

The Heart & Fish Head Nebulae

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This is the OSC or Color version without H-alpha using the QHY367C, captured from grand mesa observatory using Walter Holloway’s 130mm Takahashi. I will post the OSC version with the H-alpha shortly

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Terry Hancock downunderobservatory.com

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Whitewater, Colorado

Dates: September 21 2017

RGGB 64 x 4 min

Camera: QHY367C

Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.

Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5

Registed, Calibrated and Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker

Post Processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop CS6

For comparisons please refer to my earlier imagery of this region: www.flickr.com/…/terryhanc…/albums/72157646963366983

The “Heart Nebula” show the reddish glow of hydrogen atoms ener-gized by bright stars that form inside this emission nebula. Lanes and patches of dark nebulae are also visible in the foreground of this star-

forming region of the Milky Way.

Read more about the Heart Nebula in our e-book cosmicpursuits.com/e-books/armchair-astronomer-volume-1-n...

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The Heart & Fish Head Nebulae, Terry Hancock