IC1805 Heart Nebula

IC1805 Heart Nebula
  

29 Jan 2010
Object name: IC1805 Heart Nebula
Apparent RA:  Apparent Dec:
Constellation: Cassiopeia

Here is an image from a long time ago. During 2007 I used my complete set of narrowband filters to collect a lot of frames of the central region of the heart nebula, and this is my first attempt to combine them in to a tricolour narrowband image. SII is red, Ha is green and OIII is blue. Some further processing needed to flatten the background, but that can wait until I remember how!

View full sized image of IC1805 Heart Nebula

Captured in ArtemisCapture, calibrated in ImagetoolsCa, DDP in maxim, thuggery in photoshop.

This image was autoguided using my homemade off axis guider and my black and white SC1 webcam.

Imaged with my homemade telescope mount


Exposure Details :

Coma Corrector Ha 21x600s on 200mm @ F5 with ART285
Coma Corrector Ha 8x600s on 200mm @ F5 with ART285
Coma Corrector Ha 13x600s on 200mm @ F5 with ART285
Baader 8nm OIII 11x1200s on 200mm @ F5 with ART285
Astrodon 6nm SII 14x1200s on 200mm @ F5 with ART285

Curdridge Observatory, Southampton,UK


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