Heart nebula
Located 7,500 light-years from us, in the Perseus spiral arm. It belongs to the constellation Cassiopeia. It is a mixture of interstellar gas mainly in the form of emission nebula (formed from ionized hydrogen and free electrons) and dark dust clouds. It spreads over an area of almost 200 light years. In the center of the nebula is an open star cluster of newborn hot massive stars (with a mass about 50 times that of our sun), known as the Melotte 15, 1.5 million years old. The brightest part of the nebula (bottom leftt) was first discovered, for this reason, and also has a separate classification (NGC 896).
Thechnical data :
Ha-LRGB
Ha: 21x900s
Lum 15x600s
RGB 8x300s, bin2 each.
Mount : AP Mach1 GTO
Telescope: FSQ 106, with reducer x0,73
Camera QSI 683, at -20 C
Frames taken in June (Evia) and July (Skyros Island) 2014.
During my involvement in photographing the "deep sky" I missed the accompaniment of music, as my musical experience guides me. So I decided to fill my astrophotos with my music. From September 2016 as a starting point, therefore, together with the Flaming Star Nebula, I present to You, the ‘Floydish Pulsar I’, as my first musical composition (composition, performance and production by me), always inspired by these images.
Parallel Words ! and Dancing Stars I, complete my first trilogy.
Emjoy !