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IC 1848 - Soul Nebula

The Soul Nebula in a new processing of the original image data.

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Soul Nebula

The Soul Nebula is a vast star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia, approximately 6,500 light-years away. It is often shown together with the Heart Nebula, as both belong to one large complex in the Perseus arm of our Galaxy. The entire region is over 150 light-years across and contains young stars and an open star cluster that illuminates the nebula from within. The image was taken with narrowband filters outside the region of the visible spectrum and converted to the HOO palette.

Images of the object

Selected views and details from the original gallery.

New equipment and a home-built astrograph

These new images were taken with new equipment and my home-built astrograph. The image uses a bi-colour combination of 7 nm H-alpha and OIII data.

PixInsight with a plugin using AI technology was used for processing. In the future, it would be interesting to photograph the SII band and prepare a version in, for example, the Hubble palette.