Monday 2023/10/02 the second night of clear sky, so I took full advantage, plus if I am lucky tonight is supposed to be another clear sky night into Wednesday morning 2023/10/04.  I stayed awake as long as possible, but at 01:30 after staying up Sunday night / Monday morning, I was just too tired to continue so by 02:00 my rig was back in the garage and I was in bed, looking forward to another target tonight.  

This image is my first of IC 1805 and since it is an emission Nebula  I used  the Optolong L-Ultimate filter.  Initially I was going to use my William Optics ZenithStar 61, but decided to stay with the William Optics FLT91.  This image is the result of my 1st go at my data from last night / this morning, and I think I am going to process it further as a revision, maybe even try and come up with a Hubble pallet version later today after a bike ride.

IC 1805
The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running dog nebula, IC 1805, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, 7500 light years away from Earth and located in the Perseus Arm of the Galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel on 3 November 1787. It displays glowing ionized hydrogen gas and darker dust lanes.The brightest part of the nebula (a knot at its western edge) is separately classified as NGC 896, because it was the first part of the nebula to be discovered. The nebula's intense red output and its morphology are driven by the radiation emanating from a small group of stars near the nebula's center. This open cluster of stars, known as Collinder 26 or Melotte 15, contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of the Sun, and many more dim stars that are only a fraction of the Sun's mass.The Heart Nebula is also made up of ionised oxygen and sulfur gasses, responsible for the rich blue and orange colours seen in narrowband images. The shape of the nebula is driven by stellar winds from the hot stars in its core. The nebula also spans almost 2 degrees in the sky, covering an area four times that of the diameter of the full moon.

Also in the Frame is IC 1795 
To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish. However, this colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. 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 complex 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.