IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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menardre
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IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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Last night I was able to image IC 1848 (Soul Nebula) in Cassiopeia. I previously imaged the Heart Nebula, which is very close to IC 1848. The pair are commonly know as the Heart & Soul. The Soul Nebula is very large so I imaged with my SVX130 refractor and ZWO ASI071 camera. Since it is an emission nebula and generates a lot of Ha, I used my IDAS NB1 filter. I took 60 images of 4 minutes. Processing was done with Images Plus... only fairly basic processing. As you can see I actually was not able to get the whole nebula in the frame. The Red is the Ha emission.
The Heart and Soul Nebulas are a vast star forming region spanning 300 light years. The stars being produced are very young, only a few million years old.

Roger
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Celestron CPC1100 EDGE, Stellarvue 130T refractor dual mounted on iOptron CEM120 on permanent pier mounted in Observatory. Imaging camera ZWO ASI2600 OSC, guide camera Lodestar or ZWO ASI290MM.
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Re: IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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Very nice capture, Roger. last night was absolutely beautiful and you made great use of it with your image.

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Re: IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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Roger, very nice the way you got the wispy parts to show. I have been interested in this one too and wonder what the FOV was. Did you use a reducer/flattener?
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Re: IC 1848 Soul Nebula

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For this image I used my SVX130 (5 inch) refractor with a field flattener.

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