The Heart Nebula (IC1805) is about 7500 ly. away from our earth and located in constellation Cassiopeia. It was already discovered by William Herschel in 1787. With a bit of fantasy one can guess why the nebula was named Heart Nebula. The Heart Nebula is an emission nebula consisting of ionized hydrogen gas and dark dust lanes.
Date | 2013/09/05 | |
Location | Böblingen / Germany | |
Object | Heart Nebula (IC1805) | |
Camera | Atik383L+ | |
Guiding | yes, DMK31AU03.AS via OAG | |
Telescope | 8" GSO Newtonian | |
Barlow lens | none | |
Mount | EQ6Syntrek | |
Cooling | -15°C | |
Luminance | 10x 800s, bin: 1x1 | |
Red | 10x 200s, bin: 2x2 | |
Green | 10x 200s, bin: 2x2 | |
Blue | 10x 200s, bin: 2x2 | |
Dark | 4x | |
Flat | - | |
Total exposure | ~3h53min. |
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Last updated: June 20, 2022 at 10:28 am