By Kevan Hubbard | 2025-09-21
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Heart nebula
On 09/21/2025 12:00 am by Marcy Curran | Cheyenne, Wyoming
The Heart Nebula (IC 1805) is an emission nebula, 7,500 light-years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It's glowing ionized hydrogen gas with darker dust lanes. The brightest part of the nebula is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of hot stars near the nebula's center.
Images taken with a William’s Optic FLT91 scope and an Ogma AP26CC camera on a Paramount MyT mount.
57 exposures - 5-minutes each - then stacked and processed in Pixinsight.
