Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1805  ·  LBN 654  ·  LBN 655  ·  LDN 1364  ·  LDN 1367  ·  LDN 1368  ·  LDN 1369  ·  LDN 1372  ·  LDN 1373  ·  Sh2-190
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Melotte 15 - H-HO-O, Nicla.Camerin_Maurizio.Camerin
Powered byPixInsight

Melotte 15 - H-HO-O

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Melotte 15 - H-HO-O, Nicla.Camerin_Maurizio.Camerin
Powered byPixInsight

Melotte 15 - H-HO-O

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

"In the center of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds. The open cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our Sun, and an absent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago. "  https://science.nasa.gov/ic-1805-heart-nebula

The base image was made as Ha-HO-O and took us more time to develop due the cleaning star process choosed on this image to get the starless nebula.  Also maybe for that reason the base image presents more nebulosity around the Heart Nebula and slightly shows more details than the other images. We like the balanced color reached here.  Is an open project that we hope to continue in the future with new data.

Data acquisition from Sept - Nov 2020.

Integration: 37h 58'

L = Ha
R = Ha
G = Ha*.5 + OIII*.5
B = OIII

Processed August-Sept 2021.
https://twitter.com/AstroOtus/status/1442228176537587713

Comments