Soul Nebula (IC1848, Narrowband, Starless)

The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia, 6,500 lightyears away. It is a cloud of cosmic gas and dust 150 lightyears wide that's being illuminated and carved by powerful streams of charged particles emanating from an open cluster of stars.

 

This image of the Soul Nebula completes my project to image the three main nebulae in the same region. The Heart Nebula (IC1805) flic.kr/p/2qgwVE8, The Fish Head Nebula (NGC896) flic.kr/p/2qg6dbf and the Soul Nebula.

 

The weather has not been great over the last month, but I managed to get close to 26 hours integration time over 5 separate nights.

 

Please see the version with stars here: flic.kr/p/2qkLop6

 

Equipment:

* William Optics FLT132 with the FLAT8 0.72x reducer.

 

* ZWO ASI2600MC Pro cooled camera with 2 narrowband/dualband filters: Optolong L-Ultimate 3nm Ha & Oiii, and Antlia 5nm Ha & Oiii.

 

* ZWO AM5 mount with ASIAir Plus.

 

* Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2

 

More integration and acquisition information in my Astrobin page: astrob.in/jjjpim/D/

 

Thanks for looking.

 

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