Melotte15 Inside The Heart Nebula
"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. Hope you like the image" Carl O'Beirnes
DETAILS
The Image was taken between 11th 12th & 13 of September 2009 with a William's Optics FLT-110 Triple APO refractor Atik 4000 ccd camera. @ - 25 Degrees. Guided with a Celestron 80ED and Sac 4.2 ccd camera with phd guiding software On a CGE mount L=HA (420m), R=R+HA =(60m, 60m), G(120m), B(120m) Processed in images plus V3.5 and Photoshop CS3 & maxImum DL.
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Carl O'Beirnes,
Balbriggan Observatory (MPC#J09)