Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  IC 1824  ·  IC 1831  ·  IC 1848  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 896  ·  Sh2-190  ·  Sh2-191  ·  Sh2-192  ·  Sh2-193  ·  Sh2-194  ·  Sh2-195  ·  Sh2-196  ·  Sh2-197  ·  Sh2-198  ·  Sh2-199  ·  Sh2-201
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Heart and Soul Nebulae at 200 mm in Ha, JDJ
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Heart and Soul Nebulae at 200 mm in Ha

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Heart and Soul Nebulae at 200 mm in Ha, JDJ
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Heart and Soul Nebulae at 200 mm in Ha

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Description

This two panel mosaic image of the Heart and Soul nebulae (IC 1805 & IC 1848) was captured on the nights of December 22 & 29, 2020 using a medium telephoto lens, a dual narrowband filter, and a OSC DSLR. This is image includes the H-alpha data from the red channel. This cheap, used lens turned out to be a pretty rough character. I like this focal length, but I think I'm done with this lens...

Imaged with 200mm/F4 Nikon at F/4, STC Duo Narrowband Clip Filter, and full spectrum modified Nikon D5300.

Total integration time was ~2 hours using 29 subs at ISO400 x 240 sec (IC 1805) and 35 subs at ISO400 x 240 sec (IC 1848). Pre-processed and integrated using PixInsight Batch Pre-Processing (BPP) script. Images calibrated using darks, bias, and flats. Cropped using dynamic crop and removed gradients using ABEExtracted red/green/blue channels from HDR image using BatchChannelExtraction script.

R (Ha data) and Sum of G+B (OIII data, tossed due to being a real mess) channels individually post-processed in Pixinsight: Cropped, gradient removal with ABE. Noise reduction using EZ Processing Suite for PixInsight Denoise. Further processing using masked stretch, hdr multiscale transform, local histogram transformation and morphological transformation processes.

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