Observation by Martina McGovern: IC 1805, Heart Nebula in HOO palette

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Martina McGovern

Observer

Martina McGovern

Observed

2024 Jan 19 - 23:00

Uploaded

2024 Jul 10 - 11:19

Objects

The Heart Nebula (IC1805)

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Constellation

Cassiopeia

Field centre

RA: 02^h33^m
Dec: +61°20'
Position angle: +81°27'

Field size

2°10' × 3°00'

Equipment

Askar FRA400 (400mm FL), HEQ5 PRO, guided, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, the Optolong L-eXt filter …. All controlled with an ASIair Plus.

Exposure

Subs were 180sec x 86 subs, 4hr Integration time. Darks, 20subs – Flats and Dark flats x 40 each.

Location

Near Cambridge city UK, Bortle approx 4

Target name

IC 1805, Heart Nebula

Title

IC 1805, Heart Nebula in HOO palette

About this image

I achieved several firsts with this image.

My first time to image this nebula, first time to use PixInsight to Stack and my first ever processing in the HOO colour palette. I’m happy-ish with the final image but as always I learnt lots along the way.

Can you see the Fish head nebula too? I have wanted to catch this one for a while now :)

Processing software:

Everything in PixInsight.

Clear skies all.

Martina

Files associated with this observation

IC1805 Heart neb 19Jan24 BAA.jpg (2.8 MB)

Like this image

Alan Thomas, Gerard Cauchi, Callum Wingrove, Callum Potter, Kevin Gurney, Graham Winstanley, Honor Wheeler, Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Comments

Gerard Cauchi, 2024 Jul 10 - 13:51 UTC

Happy-ish in deed! Congratulations to you Martina on a wonderful result.

Martina McGovern, Graham Winstanley

Martina McGovern, 2024 Jul 10 - 17:30 UTC

Gerard, thanks so much for your kind message. I doubt I will ever be truly happy with any of my images - there's always new techniques to learn or more data to add !!
One day I might be :)

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