Date Posted: 9/5/2025
Date Taken: 10/5/2013
Scope: William Optics Megrez 90 with Televue 0.8x FR/FF, f/5.5, 496mm
Camera: QSI 583wsg with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy G-11 Gemini
Guiding: SSAG piggybacked through Orion ST-80, PHD, pulse guiding.
Exposure: LRGB 130:55:55:55; Lum 10 min unbinned, RGB 5 min unbinned.

Calibration, stacking, and deconvolution with CCDStack;RGB Combine in Maxim DL. Luminance layering and final processing with CS4.

IC 1805 is known as the Heart Nebula, for obvious reasons. It is a large emission nebula that spans almost 2 degrees in the sky. The brighter central region and its surrounding cluster is cataloged as Melotte 15. The bright nebula at the tip of the heart is also cataloged as NGC 896 or IC 1795, and is known as the Fish Head nebula; it was the first part of the nebula discovered vt William Herschel in 1787. The Heart Nebula is located about 2300 light years away in Cassiopeia.

This is a re-process of an image originally taken in 2013.