Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1805
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Heart of the heart nebula, Huib Wouters
Heart of the heart nebula
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Heart of the heart nebula

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Heart of the heart nebula, Huib Wouters
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Heart of the heart nebula

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After a record long streak of clouds and rain, the first reasonable night. Cold but still very damp conditions, equipment was dripping water even before I started imaging. Dried up during the evening until clouds came in at 22:30. With my long focal length, I was only able to image the very centre of the Heart Nebula. Will try my first mosaic later this week, when conditions should be better.

Had difficulties with automatic background extraction in Siril, because 95% of the image is nebula, and the automatic process was removing half of it. Tried my best at manual background extraction. Any tips/tricks?

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Heart of the heart nebula, Huib Wouters