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Description
In the constellation of Cassiopeia drifts a vast cloud of gas that astronomers named the Soul. Together with its neighbour the Heart, it forms one of the sky's most poetic pairs. Its light reaches us after a journey of 6,500 to 7,500 light-years, depending on the estimates.
The Soul is a stellar nursery: a cloud of hydrogen where young, massive stars only a few million years old have just ignited. Their radiation makes the gas glow and, as it erodes it, sculpts thick columns of dust standing like fingers, the signature of a region still in full creation. Several small star clusters are nestled within it (CR 34, 632, 634).
The whole nebula is often referred to by the name of the cluster it hosts, IC 1848. But the Soul is the entire cloud. This image is a close-up of it.
Technical details
- Location :
- Winenne
- Date :
- 06/08/2022
- Celestial Coordinates :
- RA: 02h 54m 58s
Dec: +30° 27' 47" - Acquisition :
- 59 x 240 (3h56)
- Calibration :
- Offsets + Flats
- Mount :
- HEQ5 + kit Rowan
- Optics :
- SW 150/750N
- Camera :
- Asi2600Mc Pro
- Filter :
- Optolong L-Extreme
- Distance :
- 7500 light years
- Constellation :
- Cassiopeia