Heart Nebula - IC 1805
The Heart Nebula is a bright emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is located at a distance of about 7500 light years in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Heart Nebula glows in the light of ionized hydrogen due to the newly formed hot stars embedded in it.
Wide Angle of Heart Nebula shows this object at a lower power.
For a different view of this object using the Takahashi E-180 Astrograph see Heart Nebula (TAK E180).Technical Details
- Object: Heart Nebula
- Object Type: Emission Nebula
- Other Names: IC 1805, Sharpless-2 190
- Date/Time: 2013 Dec 31 & 2014 January 01
- Location: Bifrost Astronomical Observatory, Portal, AZ
- Mount: Astro-Physics 1600GTO
- Telescope: ASA N12 Corrected Newtonian Astrograph
- Camera: SBIG STL-11000M
- Field of View: 1.91° x 1.28° at 1.72 arc-sec/pixel (web version: 7.4 arc-sec/pixel)
- Exposure: L (12x600s), (8x900s), R:G:B (8x300s)
- File Name: IC434-B01w.jpg
- Processing: CCDStack 2 and Photoshop CS6
- Original Image Size: 2672 x 4008 pixels (10.7 MP); 8.9" x 13.4" @ 300 dpi
- Rights: Copyright 2014 by Fred Espenak. All Rights Reserved. See: Image Licensing.
