Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Boötes (Boo)  ·  Contains:  65 Her)  ·  The star 70 Her  ·  The star Sarin (δ Her
IC-1805 SHO, Kevin Ware
IC-1805 SHO
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IC-1805 SHO

IC-1805 SHO, Kevin Ware
IC-1805 SHO
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IC-1805 SHO

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I pointed my little 80mm 400mm FL F/5 telescope, mono-camera, and special filters to only capture specific types of light at the sky for 30hrs over 5 days to make this false-color image of a nebula called IC-1805 .

'The Heart Nebula' is about 7,500 light years away from Earth, and it is about 200 light years wide. The blues are ionized oxygen, the reds are ionized sulfur, the entire structure is mostly ionized hydrogen, as it is a stellar nursery and stars blow out ionizing energy. If you could see it with your eyes, it would be about 5x wider than the full moon. 


Processing and Stacking done in AstroPixelProcessor, Post-Processing on Adobe Lightroom

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IC-1805 SHO, Kevin Ware