LDN 1369
I haven’t had much time for pretty pictures, with the inhospitable summer weather, and my focus on the asteroids. I wanted to share something I started working on at the beginning of this year, but haven’t had the time to collect more data.
This is one of Lynd’s Dark Nebula from his catalog. I was scanning my SkyX software looking for appropriate targets for my setup when I came across this beauty. Later on I discovered it’s actually the central core of the Heart Nebula in Cepheus (IC1805).
This is a very noisy image because I’ve only collected about 1 hours data on it, but I don’t know when/if I’ll have the opportunity to collect any more, and I wanted to share it with you. It was captured using my ccd camera on the 127mm refractor, using a 7nm Ha filter from Orion. The red colorization was added in the post processing using Photoshop.
I hope to one day add more Ha data, and add some RGB to bring out the star colors. I hope you enjoy it.