The Soul Nebula is an emission nebula located east of the neighboring IC 1805 Nebula (Heart Nebula).
Together they form a complex of heart and soul.
IC 1871 is part of the Seoul Nebula, also known as Sh2-199 and LBN667. The object is about 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.This is the crop of the central area for the soul nebula.
These emission nebulae are the favorite objects of many astrophotographers.
The beautiful details inside the soul nebula – IC1871 (HST)
| Telescope | ASA 10″ F/3.6 10N ASTROGRAPH OTA |
| Focal length | 900 mm |
| Mount | G53f |
| Imaging camera | Atik 460EX mono |
| Guiding cameras | Lodestar X2 -Autoguider |
| Guiding optics | ASA 10″- OAG |
| Focal reducers | ASA 3″ Wynne Corrector 0,85x |
| Constellations | crop of the central area for the Soul Nebula in Cassiopeia |
| Distance | 7500 light years |
| RA center | 02h 57′ 22″ |
| DEC center | +60°40′ 20″ |
| Location taken | Slovakia |
| Date taken | 01/2020 |
| Pixel scale | 1.04 arcsec/pixel |
| Filters | Astronomik Ha 6nm , Astrodon OIII 5nm, Astrodon SII 5nm, |
| Exposure | 34 x 1200 sec.BIN1 Ha filter 29 x 1200sec.BIN2 OIII filter 18 x 1200sec.BIN2 SII filter |
| Total exposure | 27 hours |
| Processing software | PixInsight, CCD Inspector |
Processing object IC 1871 was captured using Narrowband Filters.
(Hydrogen-alpha – H-α 6nm, Sulfur – SII 6nm, Oxygen – OIII 5nm)
Here you can see several hours of individual images, which are processed by joining in HST (Narrowband in Hubble Palette).
You can see the resulting product above.
