IC 1805 - Heart Nebula (Brandon Paskel)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: IC 1805

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IC 1805 - Heart Nebula

The Heart Nebula is a large emission nebula found 7500 light-years away in Cassiopeia and is one of the most imaged objects of the fall season. At the core of the Heart Nebula is a star cluster known as Melotte 15, which I have centered in my framing. This cluster contains multiple huge stars with a mass 50x that of the Sun.
This image looks different from my other ones because of the way the colors are mapped. I captured three different wavelengths of emission: sulfur-ii, hydrogen-alpha, and oxygen-iii which have been mapped to the red, green, and blue channels respectively. This technique produces an image with false color, but exists to show the ways in which the three emissions interact. The result is a highly-dynamic image with information about where each emission type is found in the object. Despite the nebula being false color, the stars are true color; I captured images of the stars separately to maintain accuracy.

This image is 3h of Ha, 4h 35min of Oiii, 3h 40min of Sii, and 1h of RGB for a grand total of 11h 15min of data (not including the RGB for stars).
Optical Specifications: 518mm f/3.45 (1.52"/pix)

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