IC 1805 – Heart Nebula

Pictures taken on Thursday 25th August 2016 from Grassobbio (BG)

The Heart Nebula (IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190) lies some 7,500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.
The very brightest part of this nebula (the knot at the western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of this nebula to be discovered.

The nebula’s intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula’s center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of our Sun’s mass.

Source: Wikipedia

 

Equipment:
Takahashi FSQ 106 EDXIII F/3.6
CCD Moravian G2 8300
H-Alpha 7Nm Filter
Guide scope Tecnosky 60/228mm
Guide camera Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2
Mount Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ6

Shots:
H-Alpha 12 x 1200s

Processing:
Pixinsight 1.8, Photoshop CS6