Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  NGC 896
Heart Nebula, Stephen Richards
Heart Nebula
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Heart Nebula

Heart Nebula, Stephen Richards
Heart Nebula
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Heart Nebula

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I learned the importance of integration time on this one.  I wanted a field of view slightly larger than my scope provides so I did a 2x2 mosaic with a lot of overlap.  The end result is that the majority of the nebula ended up with close to 20 hours of time.  This is 3 times more than I've done before but I was blown away by the quality of the data.  I've done far less editing in Photoshop than I normally do.  I stretched the picture, used Topaz Denoise, a few edits in the camera raw app and used Astro Pixel Processor to shrink the stars.  I took the pictures with the Optolong L-Enhance filter and then took another 1.5 hours of pictures using the Optolong L-Pro filter for better colored stars.  A wonderful target.

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Heart Nebula, Stephen Richards