Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896
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The Heart of Cassiopeia, Casey Offord
The Heart of Cassiopeia
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The Heart of Cassiopeia

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The Heart of Cassiopeia, Casey Offord
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The Heart of Cassiopeia

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IC-1805, shot over 6 nights with varying degrees of wildfire smoke in the air.  I hadn't used my Z73 in a long while, and lately I've been trying to convince myself that doublets are almost as good as triplets when narrowband imaging, so I gave this target some extended time to find out.  In the end, the stars do look better with a triplet (at least my FLT91), but clever processing takes care of most of that. Stars in this image were taken from the Ha and OIII stacks and combined as HOO to bring out a bit more color than normal SHO would.  I'll probably add some RGB stars at some point.

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The Heart of Cassiopeia, Casey Offord