The Heart of the Heart nebula

[swag72]

Situated 7500 light years away in the ‘W’-shaped constellation of Cassiopeia, (IC1805) the Heart Nebula is a vast region of glowing gas, energized by a cluster of young stars at its centre. The image depicts the central region, where dust clouds are being eroded and moulded into rugged shapes by the searing cosmic radiation.

This image is made up of 26 exposures in total, each one being 30 minutes long.

Hope that you like it.



IC1805 (The Heart of the Heart nebula) in bi colour by swag72 (www.swagastro.weebly.com), on Flickr

 

[Mag1cp2x]

Fabulous

 

[Snooky]

Amazing!!

 

[swag72]

Thanks Graeme and Andy - Thanks for looking and glad that you like it

 

[HarryLens]

Beautiful. Hard to imagine these fantastic sights really exist.

 

[swag72]

Beautiful. Hard to imagine these fantastic sights really exist.

Cheers Shane.

 

[markyboy.1967]

One of your best Sara-loving this.

 

[jbw]

Amazing work Sara - is this using the Hubble palette or one of your own inventions ?
James

 

[swag72]

Thanks Mark and James for looking and commenting.

@James - This is one of my bi colour palettes where I use Ha and OIII and from that data make a false green channel. Not all targets work though, so sometimes i do have to resort to getting SII and making the normal HST palette!

 

[chriscross]

Mind blowing

 

[swag72]

Thanks Chris