Valentines day special: Heart and Soul (polarisalpha)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1795 · IC 1805 · IC 1831 · IC 1848 · NGC 1027 · NGC 896

Valentines day special: Heart and Soul, polarisalpha

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Decided to go with the heart and soul nebula as my 2nd astrophotography target since Valentines day was in a couple of weeks. Thought it would make a great greeting card (and it did!).

Taken with the rokinon 135mm stopped down to f3.5ish. Combines subs from 2 consecutive nights (forgot to turn on dew heater for first night! But felt that the subs looked good enough).

Was a pain to find the target manually from bortle 9 skies and the skyguider pro, but managed to in about 45min. Moon was somewhat close, and did introduce some gradient in the Oiii subs, but used dodge tool in post to alleviate it. Startools wipe was not completely successful in that gradient removal/I still suck at ST wipe tool.
Decided on about 190s as exposure time based on a CN thread about optimum gain/exposure settings for the 183 chips with narrowband filters.

Comments solicited and welcome on if/how the image can be improved for the given data. Thanks for looking!

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Title: Valentines day special: heart and soul nebulae

Description: Different color pallette and ST processing.
Bonus: zoom in right above the heart and try to find the barely discernable blue planetary nebula Webo-1 !! (I think focus is a bit off on the Oiii; need to figure out a way to fix it)

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