Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  Double cluster  ·  IC 1795  ·  IC 1805  ·  IC 1848  ·  NGC 1027  ·  NGC 663  ·  NGC 869  ·  NGC 884  ·  NGC 896  ·  The star 44Cas  ·  The star 53Cas  ·  The star 7Per  ·  The star 8Per  ·  The star εCas
Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster, Graeme Coates
Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster
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Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster

Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster, Graeme Coates
Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster
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Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster

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Taken on the night of the 25th November 2017 from West Oxfordshire, this image is a widefield rendition of the Heart and Soul Nebulae (IC1805/Sh2-190 and IC1848/Sh2-199), which includes the Double Cluster (NGC 869 and NGC 884) in Perseus.

Several fainter objects are also present– the reflection nebula LBN 142.14+01.97 (LBN 682/Ced 14) in Camelopardalis is just visible to the left (east) of faint emission nebula Sh2-202. Open cluster Stock 2 is located (just) in Cassiopeia, and, though catalogued as Sh2-191 and Sh2-197, the obscured local galaxies Maffei 1 and 2 are just visible as small, reddened smudges south of the Heart.

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Widefield Heart, Soul, Double Cluster, Graeme Coates

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