More Festive Lights of The Heart Nebula (Terry Hancock)

More Festive Lights of The Heart Nebula

Dear Friends Merry Christmas,

Last week I brought to you my Hubble Palette Version of the Heart Nebula, this time around I am presenting the Heart Nebula to you in Color with Hydrogen Alpha added using data from Grand Mesa Observatory’s system 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our subscriptions).

The camera used is a QHY367C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera, which has now been upgraded with the new “QHY367 Pro C” to be used for new data on system 1 beginning in January.

Captured over 4 nights in October 2019 for a total acquisition time of 14.3 hours

Technical Details

Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock

Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado

October 2, 29th 2019

RGB 590 min 59 x 600 sec

HA 270 min 18 x 900 sec

Narrowband Filters by Chroma "5nm"

Camera: QHY367C

Gain 2850, Offset 76, Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat

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

EQ Mount: Paramount ME

Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6

Pre Processing in Pixinsight

Post Processed in Photoshop CC

Sprawling across almost 200 light-years, emission nebula IC 1805 is a mix of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. Derived from its Valentine's-Day-approved shape, its nickname is the Heart Nebula. About 7,500 light-years away in the Perseus spiral arm of our galaxy, stars were born in IC 1805. In fact, near the cosmic heart's center are the massive hot stars of a newborn star cluster also known as Melotte 15, about 1.5 million years young. A little ironically, the Heart Nebula is located in the constellation of the mythical Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia). This deep view of the region around the Heart Nebula spans about two degrees on the sky or about four times the diameter of the Full Moon.

Explanation by NASA from my first APOD March 4 2013

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