IC1871 - The Inner Soul - Dancing on a Starry Night (John Dziuba)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD18326 · IC 1871

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IC1871 - The Inner Soul - Dancing on a Starry Night

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IC1871 - The Inner Soul - Dancing on a Starry Night

This is a closeup of the common target known as the Soul nebula. IC1871 is roughly 6,500 light-years away. The star-forming complex lies within the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. The dense star-forming clouds of IC1871 are themselves sculpted by the intense winds and radiation of the region's massive young stars.

There are many beautiful regions in this large nebula complex. My goal with this project was to create an image that takes a different perspective than most. I find this often ignored area to be intriguing. IC1871, which is the feature on the bottom left of the image, to my eye looks like a carefree girl dancing away the evening under a scene that is reminiscent of Van Gogh's Starry Night. You can almost see the motion of her dress as she twirls away the evening. It's almost midnight!

Hope you like this one as much as I do.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	7085048
PixInsight job	6XIFL0LM8GE82OPIP2TB5G5O355ROI0V
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	02h59m26s.508
RA (top/left)	02h58m31s.129
RA (top/right)	03h02m47s.900
RA (bottom/right)	03h00m23s.645
RA (bottom/left)	02h56m05s.917

Dec (center)	+60°38′56″.11
Dec (top/left)	+60°14′45″.89
Dec (top/right)	+60°33′39″.90
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°03′02″.20
Dec (bottom/left)	+60°43′50″.46

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