Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
Two vast bubbles of glowing gas in Cassiopeia, in the Hubble palette.
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The Soul Nebula (IC 1848) lies in Cassiopeia, about 7,500 light years away. It is a star-forming region: radiation and winds from young, hot stars have hollowed out cavities in the surrounding gas and sculpt pillars and ridges along their edges. A young open cluster with the same catalogue number sits inside it. In the sky it neighbours the Heart Nebula (IC 1805), which is also in the gallery. The image uses the Hubble palette: light from sulphur is shown in red, hydrogen in green and oxygen in blue.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 6 November 2026
- Total exposure
- 8 h 30 min (102 × 300 s)
- Filters and frames
- eXrm 43 × 300 s (3 h 35 min), LSyn 59 × 300 s (4 h 55 min)
- Camera
- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Focal length
- 449 mm
- Mount
- ZWO AM5N
- Location
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (home observatory)
- Processing
- AstroWizard, RC-Astro BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerminator, Adobe Lightroom
Data from the original file’s metadata or from the author.