Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896
IC1805 - The Heart Nebula, Jason Guenzel
IC1805 - The Heart Nebula
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IC1805 - The Heart Nebula

IC1805 - The Heart Nebula, Jason Guenzel
IC1805 - The Heart Nebula
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IC1805 - The Heart Nebula

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Description

This image is another collaborative work. The data was captured by Awni Hafedh using a 9.25" EdgeHD in Hyperstar configuration with a ASI1600MM cooled camera. Narrowband Ha, SII, and OIII frames were collected. The image was laid out as a 2x2 tiled mosaic. Awni preprocessed and stacked the image masters using a 2x drizzle. I assembled the mosaic using a modified SHO palette using PixInsight and finished the processing work in Photoshop. The original work was a massive 250 megapixels, so what you see here has been reduced substantially. Still, the high resolution, wide-FOV effect makes for a nice dramatic scene.

Each channel is 40 minutes of integration (20x2m) at gain 300 through 12nm Astronomik filters. Each pane is 2 hours of integration, totalling 8 hours for the completed image.

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