David_Pickles
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805)
This is my first attempt at the Heart Nebula and I'm really quite pleased with how it turned out. Captured from my back garden last night, the Altair Astro quad-band filter has worked a treat on this nebula.
The Heart Nebula (also known as IC 1805) is located about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation Cassiopeia. In the lower right corner of the image is the Fishhead Nebula (also kbown as NGC 896). These nebula are formed from ionized hydrogen gas and intense radiation emanating from a small cluster of stars near the nebula's core. Known as Melotte 15, this cluster contains a few young, hot and bright-blue supergiant stars nearly 50 times the mass of our sun.
This image is the result of 26 x 300s exposures, captured using a ZWO ASI071MC Pro colour camera attached to a Altair Wave 115ED telescope with 0.79x focal reducer and an Altair Quad-Band filter. The separate exposures were captured using Sequence Generator Pro and then stacked and processed using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop CC.
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805)
This is my first attempt at the Heart Nebula and I'm really quite pleased with how it turned out. Captured from my back garden last night, the Altair Astro quad-band filter has worked a treat on this nebula.
The Heart Nebula (also known as IC 1805) is located about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation Cassiopeia. In the lower right corner of the image is the Fishhead Nebula (also kbown as NGC 896). These nebula are formed from ionized hydrogen gas and intense radiation emanating from a small cluster of stars near the nebula's core. Known as Melotte 15, this cluster contains a few young, hot and bright-blue supergiant stars nearly 50 times the mass of our sun.
This image is the result of 26 x 300s exposures, captured using a ZWO ASI071MC Pro colour camera attached to a Altair Wave 115ED telescope with 0.79x focal reducer and an Altair Quad-Band filter. The separate exposures were captured using Sequence Generator Pro and then stacked and processed using Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop CC.