This is the Heart Nebula, IC 1805, in the constellation of Cassiopeia. This image was taken from Key West, Florida and at home from the KPO observatory field. This was captured using my travel astrophotography kit.
The skies from the Florida Keys are dark due to the small amount of land and population. Of course Key West is much more populated, but this direction from my observing site was pointed away from the main light dome.
Image Info
This was taken from the dark skies of Key West with the newly upgraded travel astrophotography kit. This is a narrowband false-color image (separate groups of monochrome subframes taken through Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulphur II filters). This image also was post-processed in Astro Pixel processor, a new tool in my imaging arsenal, that greatly reduces manual effort previously needed in processing astronomical image data:
- Camera : ZWO ASI1600MM pro
- Lens: Canon 100-400 f/5.6L lens, set to 400mm
- Mount: iOptron SmartEQ Pro
- Ha (mapped to Red): 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
- OIII (mapped to Green): 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
- SII (mapped to Blue): 12 subframes of 300s = 60 min integration
- Total integration time: 180 min = 3 hours.
- Captured via ASIAir Pro automation
- Optical tracking via ASIAir automation, currently using ST4 mount control via the ASI120MM-S guide camera
- Separate channels stacked and RGB integrated in Astro Pixel Processor
- Final processing in Aperture