IC 1848, The Soul Nebula
By Rony De Laet
IC 1848 : The Soul Nebula
While sweeping the scope through the Heart & Soul region, my retina pics up lots of brightness variations of the sky background. A rather bright region is defined as IC 1848 : the combined glow of unresolved stars and patches of an emission nebula. The view is best appreciated without a filter under dark skies. Under not so dark skies, an UHC filter is of great help. The backdraw is a loss of delicate starglow. Here is my impression, made with an UHC filter under a mag 5.7 sky.
Date : December 27, 2007
Time : around 18.00UT
Scope : Skywatcher 102/500
Eyepiece : Meade SP 26mm
Power : x20
FOV: 150′
Filter : Lumicon UHC
Seeing : 4/5
Transp. : 4/5
Nelm : 5.7
Elevation : 800m ASL
Sketch Orientation : N up, W right.
Digital sketch made with PhotoPaint, based on a raw pencil sketch.
Rony,
A glowing sketch of a beautiful eyepiece view.
Frank
Rony,
That is just an incredible sketch of an equally impressive target. Great work!
~WadeVC