IC1848 - The Embryo/Soul Nebula - AstroClassifieds Photo Gallery

IC1848 - The "Embryo" or "Soul" Nebula

Object Description:

Located just over 4° N of h Persei, IC 1848 is a faint emission nebula located just SE of IC1805. It is variously referred to as the "Soul Nebula" or "Embryo Nebula", due to its resemblance to a baby. The same field of view also contains Collinder 33 and Collinder 34 star clusters as well as faint nebulae IC1871 and Sh2-198.

Both IC1848 and IC1805 are not visible to our naked eyes. IC1848 has a size of 60 arc minutes in east-west and 30 minutes in north-south direction. The nebulae float together at a distance of about 2500 light years away.

This image is a tricolor narrowband image, taken with Ha, OIII, and SII filters.

Dates Taken:

- 9/30/06 through 10/22/06

Equipment Used:

- TAK FSQ

- SBIG STL-6303

- Paramount ME

- FLI PDF

- Astrodon 50mm Ha, OIII, and SII filters, with 6nm bandpass

Exposures:

- Ha: 8 hours of 30 minute subs

- OIII: 14.5 hours of 30 minute subs

- SII: 11.75 hours

...totalling 34.25 hours

Processing:

CCDStack:

- Calibration

- Image registration

- Initial channel combines

- Hot/cold pixel reduction

- Gentle deconvolution

- DDP

Photoshop CS2:

- Color combine

- Gradient removal

- Color adjustments

- Noise control

- Shadow/highlight adjustments

- Contrast enhancement (Noel Carboni's Photoshop Actions)

- Contrast curves

- Sharpening