Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  IC 1824  ·  IC 1831  ·  IC 1848  ·  IC 289  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896  ·  PK138+02.1  ·  PK138+04.1  ·  Sh2-190  ·  Sh2-191  ·  Sh2-192  ·  Sh2-193  ·  Sh2-194  ·  Sh2-195  ·  Sh2-196  ·  Sh2-197  ·  Sh2-198  ·  Sh2-199  ·  Sh2-200  ·  Sh2-201
IC1805 & IC1848 mosaic in Ha, Sergiy_Vakulenko
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IC1805 & IC1848 mosaic in Ha

IC1805 & IC1848 mosaic in Ha, Sergiy_Vakulenko
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IC1805 & IC1848 mosaic in Ha

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Initially, I did not plan to shoot this mosaic, it so happened that after shooting the Heart and starting to shoot the Soul, I realized that there was a sufficient overlay of frames to assemble the mosaic.

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 western edge) 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.

Westerhout 5 (Sharpless 2-199, LBN 667, Soul Nebula) is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia. Several small open clusters are embedded in the nebula: CR 34, 632, and 634 (in the head) and IC 1848 (in the body). The object is more commonly called by the cluster designation IC 1848.

This complex is the eastern neighbor of IC1805 (Heart Nebula) and the two are often mentioned together as the "Heart and Soul".

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IC1805 & IC1848 mosaic in Ha, Sergiy_Vakulenko