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IC 1805 the Heart Nebula, RonAdams

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula

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IC 1805 the Heart Nebula, RonAdams

IC 1805 the Heart Nebula

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Description

This is not what I wanted to image last night. I planned on imaging NGC 7023 the Iris Nebula. I've never imaged NGC 7023 with my William Optics ZenithStar 61 refractor and I wanted to see how it would do with this object. For some reason I could not get my mount to select and slew to NGC 7023. I would pick an alignment star and when this was calibrated I would do a select and slew to NGC 7023 and my mount would move and then stop as if it was on NGC 7023. I then would take a test image and I could not see NGC 7023 in my test image. I tried using several different alignment stars with no success. I then tried double star alignment and still no success. I don't know what the problem was. After wasting 40 minutes I decided to pick another target to see if the mount would put me on it. I chose IC 1805 as my target. I did a one star alignment and then a select and slew to IC 1805. This time IC 1805 was in my image. I did a little framing and then began imaging. When I went outside the sky was clear. However shortly after I began imaging IC 1805 clouds began to move in and out. I fought with clouds the entire night. I kept imaging hoping that I could get enough usable images. However I wound up having to trash almost half of my light frames due to clouds and I used some light frames that I probably shouldn't have. There was heavy moisture in the air and I had to dry my primary lens

and guide scope lens with a hair dryer every two images. I'm really surprised that I was able to get an image. It's not the greatest image of this object but I'll take it.

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B

Description: I reprocessed my mage to fix some things I didn't like.

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C

Description: I can't do any imaging due to the weather. So I used the time to reprocess some images. In this I attempted bring out more nebulosity detail and to improve the star field. The changes in the image are subtle.

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IC 1805 the Heart Nebula, RonAdams