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IC 1848 Soul Nebula, Christophe Perroud
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IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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After the Heart Nebula I've imaged early September, let’s introduce its spacemate just a few degrees apart : The Soul Nebula. Those objects are well-known for all astro-photographers around the world and there is plenty of stunning images of them here at AB. Anyway, this not a reason to skip this beautiful area and I decided to spent a night at the Soul, or IC1848, LBN667, Sh2-199 for catalog lovers.

The Soul Nebula is truly beautiful, showing a good amount of red-illuminated nebulosity and several embedded open clusters in its core, such as IC 1848 itself, Cr33 & 34. The southeastern part has also interesting features to look at. For example the C-shaped bright gas wave with a tiny dark cross (LDN 1806) in the middle of the curve. The second one is a dark lane delimitated by a pale blue border on one side, ending in a blue area at the border of the Soul. Two Sharpless objects are also referenced close to the main nebulosity, as seen on the annotated image. Two other are a few "steps" away. Note that PGC10217, or Maffei 2, is a neighbor galaxy located about 15 millions light-years from us, and one of the most massive around us. Maffei 1 is not far from its sister but not visible in this cropped view. Dark nebula LDN 1376 is visible as a straight lane on right side of the Soul. A lot of nice features to discover around there ;-)

Staking and processing under PixInsight and final touch-up in PS. The image is cropped to better focus on the Soul. I will try a mosaic of two images soon...

Thanks for looking and clear skies to you all ;-)

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IC 1848 Soul Nebula, Christophe Perroud