Fabian Neyer Astrophotography

Heart & Soul Nebula

Optics

TeleVue NP101is f5.4

Camera

STL11000M

Filters

Baader HaRGB

Date

September-October 2011

Location

Antares Observatory

Sky Conditions

mag 5 sky

Exposure

LRGB = 26.67,6.17,10.5,12.33h
total: 55.67h

Programs used

CCD Stack, Registar, PixInsight, Photoshop CS4

Notes

Four frame mosaic - first light of my TeleVue NP101is

This field (approximately 7 x 4.5 degrees) is covered with many interesting objects. Some of them can be seen at an image scale of 100% or 150% image scale. Click on the thumbnails below:

A labeled high resolution image of the entire region can be found here, thanks to Sakib Rasool! There are many uncatalogued nebulas.

click here for a 35% size 2500x1730 (3300KB)

click here for a 45% size 3320x2225 (4970KB)

Below you see narrowband Halpha emission line images. On the left, an interesting and rarely imaged supernova remnant (HB3) can be seen while on the right the whole 4-frame mosaic of the Heart and Soul Nebula is shown. For the mosaic, the right side unfortunately had to be cropped (just the part where the nice shock front is) because I initially did not kown that there was such a supernova remnant (until Sakib Rasool mentioned it by coincidence).

Below you find two additional crops at 400% and 150% resolution. One shows an interesting ring structure, the other shows the two galaxies Maffei 1 and 2.