Photo of the Day - May 22, 2013
Steven Coates from Ocala, Florida
The Baby Nebula - The Baby Nebula (IC 1848) lies in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen. This emission nebula, also known as the Soul Nebula because of its nearness to another such cloud — the Heart Nebula (IC 1805) — has a total magnitude of 6.5. That means if you could concentrate all of IC 1848’s light into a point, it would just be visible to a sharp-eyed observer from a dark site. (3.2-inch Orion EON80 refractor at f/6, Quantum Scientific Imaging QSI 683ws CCD camera, Hydrogen-alpha/RGB image with exposures of 135, 60, 60, and 78 minutes, respectively)
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