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The Heart Nebula
Sprawling across hundreds of light-years, emission nebula IC 1805 is a mix of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. Only about 7,500 light-years away, stars were born in this region, nicknamed the Heart Nebula. Light from this and other glowing gas clouds surrounding hot, young stars comes in very narrow bands of emission characteristic of energized atoms within the clouds.
The nebula is shown rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
This image of the Heart Nebula uses the Hubble Palette. The SII data (sulfur) are mapped to the red channel, the Ha (hydrogen) to the green and the 0III (oxygen) data are mapped to the blue channel
Source: NASA APOD
Taken from 9/28/2013 to 1/6/2014 in Chino Valley, AZ
Takahashi FSQ-106ED refractor
SBIG STF-8300M camera using AstroDon SII, Ha and OIII filters.
Losmandy G11 mount
Exposure Details:
SII 660 min.
Ha 195 min.
OIII 570 min.
Credit & Copyright: Astrophotographer Bob Franke
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