Valentines Day is closer than you think. These were taken with the Takahashi 4 inch refractor. A total of 49 thirty minute narrow band exposures were stacked to form the final images.
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NGC 896 – A nebula in the Constellation Cassiopeia
NGC 896 is the brightest part of the Heart Nebula and is about 7500 light years from earth. This is a narrowband image taken with the Astro-Physics 130mm Starfire telescope which is composed of 12 one hour exposures and 12 thirty minute exposures through a combination of H-Alpha, O3, and S2 Astrodon filters.
Astro La Vista Observatory 