#ngc 896

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So here is my multi object image from last weekend. We’ve got tons of stars. Buried with in them you can make out the Heart and Soul nebulas riding next to the Double Cluster. This is a wide field shot with my 70-200 lens set to around 150mm and f/4. This was a tough one for me. I have so much light pollution from my back yard that these two nebulas were really hard to bring out. I even used my light pollution filter (which helped greatly) but it was still hard. To get noise down enough I knew I needed images with good signal to noise ratio. I went with 5 minute exposures at ISO 400 and took 27 of them before calling it a night. Even with the noise down, I still had to do a lot of PS work to get those nebulas to pop out. I’m happy with the results for my terrible skies.

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NGC 896.

Credit: Tony and Daphne Hallas

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Heart Nebula

Image Credit: Rob Pfile

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 Emission nebula IC 1795 / NGC 896 in the constellation Cassiopeia

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This is my favorite nebula, the emission nebula IC 1805, commonly known as the Heart Nebula (for obvious reasons). It is located about 7,500 light years from Earth in the Perseus arm of our galaxy and in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The bright portion in the center of the "heart" is a star cluster called Melotte 15, which contains many young stars (around 1.5 million years old).

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RED ON ARRIVAL   This sharp cosmic portrait features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. Also cataloged as NGC 896, the nebula's remarkable details, shown in its dominant red color -- caused by hydrogen atoms ionized by UV light cast off by young stars -- were captured using a sensitive camera, and long exposures that include image data from a narrowband filter.  (Photo via NASA APOD)

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NGC 896