The Heart and Soul Nebulae, IC 1805 and IC 1848

by glungstenCarbide

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  1. glungstenCarbide on

    Captured this image last month. With a nice wide-field setup like the RC51 on an APS-C sensor gives, getting both the Heart and Soul in one frame was definitely a must-do for me! I’ll be interested to see the improvement when I image these again with a camera more sensitive to Ha.

    7h 24m total exposure (111x 240s subs)

    Equipment:

    * William Optics Redcat 51
    * Cannon T7i (unmodified)
    * Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro

    Processing in PixInsight:

    * WBPP
    * Gradient removal
    * SPCC
    * NoiseXTerminator + BlurXTerminator + StarXTerminator
    * Statistical stretch
    * Curves transformation for brightness, contrast, and chrominance
    * Local histogram equalization
    * Stars stretched separately and re-combined