Date Posted: 9/6/2025
Date Taken: Two nights, 10/25 - 10/26/2014
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: Lodestar, off-axis
Exposure: LRGB 200:95:90:90. Luminance 10 min unbinned, RGB 5min unbinned.

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack 2; RGB combine and DDP with Maxim DL; Final processing with CS4.

IC 1848 is known as the Soul Nebula, most likely due to its proximity to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula. Technically IC 1848 refers to one of the embedded clusters, and the nebula itself is Westerhout 5. It is a large emission nebula, with several small embedded open clusters. It lies about 6500 light years away in Cassiopeia. For what it's worth, in this orientation I don't see a soul, I see a running buffalo.

This is a re-process of an image originally taken in 2014.