IC1805: A Big Winter Heart (and a Long Exposure Journey!)

The Heart Nebula is seriously massive! It barely fit onto my camera sensor with this setup. And, wouldn’t you know it, the clouds decided to make an appearance again, cutting my imaging session short. Bummer! I’ll definitely have to revisit this one…

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• Capture Date: 2012-01-23
• Credit: Cédric Thomas
• Location: “Le petit Borobia” Observatory (remote)
• Telescope: William Optics FLT 110 TEC (oiled spaced) @ F/5.2
• Focal Reducer: William Optics AFR-IV 0.8x
• Mount: Sky Watcher N-EQ6 Pro
• Autoguiding: LodeStar on 80mm guidescope + MaximDL
• Camera: Canon EOS 1100d Astrodon Modified
• RGB Exposure: 2h30 (30x300s) @ ISO 800
• Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Levels + Curves (Photoshop)