Heart Nebula - IC 1805 Forax Palette (jimwgram)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD14695 · HD14817 · HD15069 · HD15238 · HD15239 · HD15250 · HD15382 · HD15522 · HD15557 · HD15558 · HD15570 · HD15629 · HD15665 · HD15785 · HD15851 · HD16183 · HD16218 · HD16349 · HD236966 · IC 1795 · IC 1805 · LBN 645 · LBN 646 · LBN 647 · LBN 648 · LBN 650 · LBN 654 · LBN 655 · LBN 656 · LBN 657 · And 17 more.

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Heart Nebula - IC 1805 Forax Palette

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Heart Nebula - IC 1805 Forax Palette

On my latest projects, I'm trying to accumulate more data and spend more effort on processing to see if I can get closer to matching some of the amazing images that I see others producing here! This is another attempt at the Heart Nebula with my WO Fluorostar 91. For this image I captured 21h 48m of NB data (Ha, Oiii, and Sii). With Southern California's funky Fall weather, this took a while -- but I managed to get five nights between 10/25 and 11/11, several of which I was able to run until just before dawn.

The results were processed with Pixinsight using the Forax technique of mapping the NB channels in Pixelmath:
https://thecoldestnights.com/2020/06/pixinsight-dynamic-narrowband-combinations-with-pixelmath/

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the detail, although I've gone back and forth trying to tune the colors. I may still come back with further revisions.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	6680840
PixInsight job	5FK7L8Q7IQBCEHSICQMS3VKYNTDZ59IY
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h32m39s.76
RA (top/left)	02h39m57s.48
RA (top/right)	02h40m14s.58
RA (bottom/right)	02h24m44s.80
RA (bottom/left)	02h25m38s.30

Dec (center)	+61°26′13″.8
Dec (top/left)	+60°11′25″.10
Dec (top/right)	+62°40′59″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+62°39′25″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+60°09′55″.4

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