IC1805

"The Heart Nebula"

Constellation- Cassiopeia

Right Ascension: 02h 33m 08 s

Declination: +61° 27' 25"

Distance: 2500 light years

Visual Brightness: 6.5 mag

Apparent Dimension: 50x44 arc minutes

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Image information-

Date taken-Sept 12, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -15C, on a NexStar11 GPS autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- Ha =11 x 900 seconds binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDsoft Ver 5.0, unsharp mask in Astroart 2.0, levels and curves in Photoshop CS