Melotte15 Inside the Heart Nebula101 viewsHi all,
With amazing clear skies all this week, a very rare event for us I was able to do a lot of imaging. Most of it was all in H Alpha due to a very bright Moon.
But last night the 11/12th the moon was just 49% Sunlit so I took a chance on getting color for one of the projects. I was working on Melotte15 which is in the center of the heart nebula that lies in Cassiopeia.
Melotte15 Inside The Heart Nebula61 viewsThe Heart Nebula, IC 1805, lies some 7500 light years away from Earth and is located in the Perseus arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and darker dust lanes. The nebula is formed by plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons.
The nebula's intense red output and its configuration are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars known as Melotte 15 contains a few bright star
