IC 1871 (Sh2-201, LBN 675) Bright Nebula in Cassiopeia
Located at: RA 03 hours 03 minutes 09 seconds, Dec +60 degrees 27 minutes 45 seconds
Size: 4.0' x 3.5'; Magnitude: --, Class: Emission (Sharpless) 3 2 3
North is up
West to the right
| Telescope: |
8" f5 Newtonian reflector |
| Camera: |
ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c & -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56 |
| Image: |
Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 610 minutes (61 x 10 minute subs), 12/3/4/5/2007 |
| Processing: |
CCDStack 1.3, Photoshop 7.0 |
| Location: |
Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s) |
| Notes: | This image is one of the first of this December (2007) that highlights the poor seeing of this entire month ... had a lot of 'offshore' winds (Santa Ana's) that made focusing difficult. Also, this image is not well captured by the Deep Sky filter ... would probably have been better with the red filter (or a narrowband Ha). The large field of nebulosity to the west (right) is the edge of IC 1848, a large (100' x 53') bright nebula also known as the "Soul Nebula". See this wonderful color image by Dr. Walter Koprolin that show the relative positions of IC 1871 and IC 1848 |