Hi All,

Here is my latest shot of IC 1805 The Heart Nebula Complex.

It represents 5.5 hours of imaging over 3 nights, due to high clouds interfering each night.

Tak FSQ106 refractor, field flattener, and STL11000 CCD, and 4nm H-Alpha Filter (3 hours) + (2.5 hours) Astronomics LRGB filters.
spent a lot of time processing this one, but came out pretty cool!

Lots of faint nebulosity in the surrounding area too!

Just in time for Valentines Day!

Since I can only post a small jpg on this forum,

here is a link to a little higher res shot(~400K)
http://mvas.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1159

Attached Images

IC1805_HeartNeb2web.jpg (127.8 KB, 53 views)

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The Chumack Observatories
MPC 838 Dayton Research Station
MPC H66 Yellow Springs Research Station
www.galacticimages.com

Aww, look, the Universe loves us!

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Great work John! Very nice shot!

Kent

That is one nice photo. Thanks for sharing.

Superb colour rendition. All of your hard work and learnning have certainly paid off. Even the dark regions are well defined. Fantastic work!

Kind regards
Matt

Very good pic. Great sharpness and definition.

-Veeger

That's beautiful, so much color!

I love it, keep it up.

Hi John, You have a winner! Very detailed and sharp and the colors a beautiful. Your hard work of processing efforts paid off splendidly. Welldone and Clear Skies

Beautiful Picture!!, Thanx for sharing.

Dennis

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Thanks to All for the kind comments,

It was well worth the time and effort to put together.

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John Chumack
The Chumack Observatories
MPC 838 Dayton Research Station
MPC H66 Yellow Springs Research Station
www.galacticimages.com

Very nice, John! It's good to see some images of this quality. I've been clouded out for a months and I'm getting a little frustrated.

Again great job!

Tom

What a great image! This would make a great Valentines Day card!

supercali.............!

awesomely beautiful!

thank you so much for sharing.

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