IC 1805 the heart nebula from my backyard

[moonshinegnomie]

IC 1805 the heart nebula.
located about 7500 light years away in teh constellation cassiopeia
this is 9 hours of exposure time in my backyard.
off to the right is NGC 896 sometime called the fish head nebula. Its atuall part of teh same nebula but has a seperate name since it was discovered earlier than the rest

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Wow..cant see anything in the big city

[moonshinegnomie]

3. this is from just outside austin texas

there is a scale called the bortle scale that measures how dark your skies are.
it goes from 1-9 with 9 being the worst like downtown in a big city
Im in bortle 8

[MiHale]

2. 👍. Freaking amazing!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Great work! (and took a lot). . . . . nt

[Frasier Balzov]

5. Oxygen gas blue. Sulfur gas orange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Nebula

[moonshinegnomie]

6. i this case the orange is actually more hydrogen

i used a dual band filter which isolates Hydrogen and oxygen. i dont have a sulfur filter (yet). a better camers is a higher priority

[usonian]

7. That's just awesome, and I know you put a lot of work into it.

I'd go out and take star photos except for uhhhhh ....
Bears


And being cheap.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

[usonian]

9. Ain't nothing you want to avoid like (what appears to be) a Mama bear and her cub(s)

Nice play on words.

I was so preoccupied.

I Pleiade ignorance. See my previous webcam post.
It's crude, but for a webcam, pretty slick.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036152300

Low tech.