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IC 1805 Heart Nebula in Hubble Palette, JohnAdastra
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IC 1805 Heart Nebula in Hubble Palette

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IC 1805 Heart Nebula in Hubble Palette, JohnAdastra
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IC 1805 Heart Nebula in Hubble Palette

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Description

IC 1805 Heart Nebula and Melotte 15 - Processed with SHO Hubble Palette

Another attempt on this object was made in 2021 with the ASI2600MM-P mono camera obtained in the middle of the year. Each narrowband filter produced strong signal despite local light pollution and a fullish moon in some cases. The final image stood up well to zoom in on Melotte 15, the Heart of the Heart; that image is shown on another page of my gallery:

Melotte 15 - The Heart of the Heart ( JohnAdastra ) - AstroBin

Processing was performed in PixInsight, and before combining, each channel was first denoised with MureDenoise, to obtain a smoothed background.  The color and contrast adjustments were done after obtaining a starless image using the StarXTerminator script. A luminance layer with stars was then produced from Ha master light frame, where Deconvolution, star reduction with MorphologicalTransformation, and sharpening with UnsharpMark were disposed. Further refinements were also done with LocalHistogramEqualization, and a minor application of DarkStructureEnhance.

Subframes were collected over the nights of 17 and 19 Novemeber, and 13, 20 and 23 December 2021.

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