sharp cosmic portrait features and obscuring dust clouds in IC
1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Also
cataloged as NGC 896, the nebula's remarkable details, shown in
its dominant red color, were captured using a sensitive camera,
and long exposures that include image data from a narrowband
filter. The narrow filter transmits only the red light of
hydrogen atoms. Ionized by ultraviolet light from energetic
young stars, a hydrogen atom emits the characteristic H-alpha
light as its single electron is recaptured and transitions to
lower energy Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star
Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805,
the Heart Nebula, as part of a of star forming regions that lie
at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000
light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along
the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that
distance, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC
1795. Bob and Janice Fera