Location: PODville in backyard in Tennessee 11/29/07

HUTECH MODIFIED CANON XTi
(Canon Rebel XTi (400DH) spectrum enhanced camera with built-in astronomical UV/IR blocking filter (Type Ib) )

Meade 80ED on Top CGE1100
Guiding PhD
Sky clear Temp about 32 degrees
Learning trial with photoshop processing CS3
600sec x 12. Darks and Flats calibrated in ImagePlus.
White and Black points and Midrange color and Contrast set and optimized and tweeked in Photoshop using levels and curves
LAB Color a and b channels and luminosity adjusted with curves in PS.
Helped bring out nebulosity.
Graident XT Applied
Few other PS optimizations and little Pixie dust sprinkled on screen.

Distance: 7500 Light Years
The brightest part of IC1805 complex consists of nebulae IC1795 and NGC896 at bottom right of this pic.
IC1805, contains large and bright star cluster Melotte 15 at its center. The central cluster has the same
designation of its parent cloud IC 1805, but is also known as Melotte 15.
IC 1805 is a massive 300 light year cavity of excavated gas blown out by the stellar winds and ultraviolet
radiation
Melotte 15 is an extremely young cluster of massive OB stars with a mean age of only 1.5 million years