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| Heart Nebula in Cassiopeia | |||||||||||||||||
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| At a distance of 6,000 light years, a cloud of energized hydrogen gas glows red in the shape of a heart (with left heart failure for you cardiologists out there). Called the Heart Nebula because of its shape, a cluster of young stars emerges at its center, identified as IC 1805. A neighboring cloud of gas, called the Soul Nebula, is the next image in this tour. This image combined 2 hours 35 minutes of H-alpha exposures with 30 minutes of green and red and 45 minutes of blue exposures, during a gibbous moon. An ST10XME camera was used through a Takahashi Sky90 with a reducer, for a focal length of about 400mm. |
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| Music: Heart of Glass by Blondie | |||||||||||||||||
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