Soul Nebula in SHO ... dive in for some surprising detail! (James Clark)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD16894 · HD17086 · HD17087 · HD17114 · HD17356 · HD17505 · HD17520 · HD17688 · HD17911 · HD17948 · HD17971 · HD18152 · HD18294 · HD18326 · HD18337 · HD18352 · HD18458 · HD18473 · HD18749 · HD18766 · HD18767 · HD237000 · HD237007 · HD237011 · HD237015 · HD237016 · HD237018 · HD237019 · HD237023 · HD237034 · And 15 more.

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Soul Nebula in SHO ... dive in for some surprising detail!

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I'm pleasantly surprised at the details in this image - my first try at IC1848, the Soul nebula in Cassiopeia. I always thought it was rather a dull target but there are mini Pillars of Creation and all kinds of other structures in there; if interested, please zoom in on the full resolution version and have a swim round!

This was taken with the same setup as my recent Pleiades image - 25 hours of data from 19-20 January 2023 with my RedCat51 (with ASI 533MM and Antlia 3nm SHO filters) piggybacking on my main TS 106mm scope (with ASI2600MC and ALP-T filter)

I also took an hour's worth of L-Pro filter subs for the stars, but has some trouble with the shapes so just used them for the RGB and used the integrated H master as L to make LRGB stars. More effort than it should have been, but the end result was more pleasing than any of the other options I tried.

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RA (center)	02h54m46s.93
RA (top/left)	02h44m42s.91
RA (top/right)	03h03m37s.85
RA (bottom/right)	03h05m32s.77
RA (bottom/left)	02h45m14s.36

Dec (center)	+60°22′38″.2
Dec (top/left)	+59°16′16″.3
Dec (top/right)	+59°07′07″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°25′58″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°35′49″.2

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