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Melotte 15, Alicia Rossiter
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Melotte 15

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Melotte 15

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Melotte 15 is the very center of the Heart Nebula. Very young, blue and bright stars are the center of this beauty with a few bright stars 50 times the mass of the sun. 
The evening of August 11 was the perfect time to make the trip to the Heart: Clear, moonless skies with perfect seeing conditions. So, I set up 2 rigs, one for the wide field of the Heart and Soul and one for Melotte 15. Things worked well. The complexity of Melotte 15 is fascinating. It is even more amazing that one can capture all these with so lille experience (like mine).

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Melotte 15, Alicia Rossiter