The Soul Nebula, Westerhout 5, IC 1848 (Chris)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1848 · IC 1871 · NGC 1027

The Soul Nebula, Westerhout 5, IC 1848, Chris

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The Soul Nebula, Westerhout 5, IC 1848

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So far my biggest project yet, i have only gone to about 9 hours max on any single target!

Originally started this just to test my mount with the intention to move to a different target, however when I found out there is a fair bit more to get out of this nebula I decided to pour more hours into it to get it to total 21 hours (RGB + Dual narrowband).

The Soul Nebula is an area full of star formation, this star formation is trigger around the edges where you see sort of "mountains" and areas with dense amounts of gas in contrast to the center. The center has the largest of the stars that are in the nebula and so the stellar winds formed by them has pushed out and compressed the gasses to trigger the star formation.
The soul nebula is located 7,500 light years away and has a few smaller local clusters in and around it.

Just above the soul nebula you can see Sh2-201, it is located around 10,000 light years away and may be connected to the soul nebula, just to the left you may also find a semi-circular bit of nebula, this is sh2-198 (which I would love to image deeper but lack the focal length), it is located around 9,400 light years away and is connected to the soul nebula.

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