Part of the Heart Nebula Complex (IC 1805) which lies in Cassiopeia, around 6000 light years from Earth, it is a star forming region comprised of glowing gases and obscuring dust. This 'false colour' image utilises the Hubble palette where narrow-band emission data from Sulphur, Hydrogen and Oxygen gas is mapped to Red, Green and Blue channels respectively with a little bit of mixing to get good transitions of colour. The object Melotte 15 is also visible to the bottom left of the image which lies at the centre of the Heart Nebula. Captured using my own ZWO astro-cam attached to our astronomical society's telescope (Takahashi) and mount. The data was acquired over 5 different nights between October and December. Processed mostly in PixInsight with finishing touches in Photoshop and Lightroom. This is only my second narrow-band image and I am very pleased with how it turned out. It is just under 17 hours of data and it has probably taken me about the same amount of time to process the image.
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