Inside the Soul Nebula (James R Potts)

Inside the Soul Nebula

I saw one person on Astrobin who referred to this as "the Fire inside the Soul," I like that description. And I am not complaining, as I'm really happy with this image and I didn't spend 2 days editing, changing, & deleting. It came together pretty quickly. The only thing I debated over was how much noise to reduce, I went with less, as I love the wispy details in the nebula, especially when you zoom in on the image. There is some noise at the top of the image, I guess I could have tried to use the blur tool, but overall I think this turned out nicely and I hope everyone else thinks so, but as always, if you have suggestions or critiques, they are very welcome.

This is only about 4.5 hours of data captured over 3 nights, in between clouds and other targets. I actually made a mistake last night in my Auto Capture in the ASIAir pro, which I think helped this image. I was going to capture 20 Ha, 10 Su & 10 OIII. But I ended capturing 20 Su and no OIII. When reviewing the individual FIT files, there is much more sulfur emissions that show up in this target than OIII (very little OIII). I used the SHO 2 formula (Hubble Palette) in APP to combine images taken with Ha, Su & OIII fitlers. In PS, I used Star Terminator to remove the stars and then I used an HSO combined image to add the stars back as a Luminance layer, which produced much better star color.

The dark dust clouds outlined by bright ridges of glowing gas are cataloged as IC 1871. About 25 light-years across, this field of view spans only a small part of the much larger Heart and Soul nebulae. At an estimated distance of 6,500 light-years the star-forming complex lies within the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way. The dense star-forming clouds of IC 1871 are a result of intense winds and radiation of the region's massive young stars.

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RA (center)	02h57m13s.721
RA (top/left)	02h53m01s.580
RA (top/right)	03h00m23s.355
RA (bottom/right)	03h01m34s.480
RA (bottom/left)	02h53m56s.839

Dec (center)	+60°31′12″.47
Dec (top/left)	+60°01′23″.96
Dec (top/right)	+59°54′59″.99
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°00′31″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°07′07″.98

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