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Now that I am getting the hang of Pixinsight have reprocessed my one of my favorite images of all time, the Heart nebula. Hopefully I have done this one justice! This was processed in the Hubble pallet also known as SHO which stands for Sulfur Hydrogen Oxygen.
The Heart Nebula, IC 1805, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on November 3, 1787. 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.
Hope you all enjoy and thanks for any constructive comments.
Equipment:
Telescope - Stellarvue SV70T
Imaging Camera- ZWO ASI 1600mm Pro Cool
Mount - Celestron Advanced VX
Software:
Sequence Generator Pro
Pixensight
Lightroom
Photoshop
Lights:
SII-70x300sec
HA- 30x300sec
Oiii-50x300sec
Red-30x60sec
Green-30x60sec
Blue-30x60sec
35 Darks
100 Bias
Total integration 14 Hours
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