Melotte 15 - Heart of the Heart Nebula
| Object | IC1805; Melotte 15; "Heart Nebula"; "Heart of the Heart Nebula" |
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| Description | IC1805 is a large emission nebulae in Cassiopeia that I captured here with narrowband filters, a monochrome camera, and a telescope with a focal length of 464mm. It was all shot from my light polluted backyard in Somerville, MA. Mapped color in the Hubble Palette (SHO->RGB). |
| Rights Statement | This image is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). If you use this image elsewhere, you must provide an attribution (credit line) like this: Melotte 15 by Nico Carver is licensed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 Licesnse. |
| Acquisition Dates | 11/09/20; 11/10/20; 11/14/20; 11/15/20; 11/23/20; 11/24/20 |
| Locations | Backyard, Somerville, MA |
| Optics | Stellarvue SVQ86 |
| Mount | Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro |
| Camera | ZWO ASI-1600 MM-Cool (v3) |
| Filters | Astrodon Ha (5nm), OIII (3nm), SII (3nm) |
| Guiding | ZWO ASI290MM Mini and Astromania 60mm guidescope |
| Gain | 200 |
| Cooling | -15C |
| Integration | Total: 23.3 hours; SII: 86x300"; Ha: 112x300"; OIII: 82x300" |
| Software | Mount Control: EQMOD; Planetarium: Cartes Du Ciel; Acuisition: Sequence Generator Pro; Guiding: PHD2; Polar Alignment: QHY Polemaster; Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5 and Photoshop CS6 |
| RA/DEC Center | 38.855 degrees, 61.366 degrees |
| Orientation (E of N) | 16.1 degrees |
| Links | Astrobin; WorldWideTelescope |