IC1805 most commonly known as The Heart Nebula lies some 7500 light years away from us and is located in the constellation Cassiopeia. This is an emission nebula showing glowing gas and dark dust lanes. This nebula is formed by the plasma of ionized hydrogen and free electrons. Shot over 3 nights using the TMB92SS/QHY9M , this is a CFHT Palette (Canada France Hawaii Telescope) technique, the channels are assigned with H-Alpha = Red, OIII = Green and SII = Blue Total Exposure 14.5 hours Image Information Location: DownUnder Observatory, Fremont MI Date of Shoot August 29th,30th and 31st 2012 Exposures: QHY9M mono CCD H-Alpha 3nm 11 x 30 min OIII 8.5 nm 8 x 30 min SII 8 nm 10 x 30 min Camera: QHY9M monochrome CCD, cooled to -30C StarlightXpress Color Filter Wheel Scope: Thomas M. Back TMB 92SS F5.5 APO Refractor Astro Tech AT2FF Field Flattener For guiding: StarlightXpress Lodestar autoguider, StarlightXpress Ultra Slim Off Axis guider Paramount GT-1100S German Equatorial Mount (with MKS 4000) Image Aquisition Maxim DL Stacking and Calibrating: CCDStack Registration of images in Registar Post Processing Photoshop CS5