Tuesday, Feb 11, 2025

IC 1795 also known as the “Fish Head Nebula”, it is a star-forming region in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia. The colors we see in the nebula were created by adopting the Hubble “SHO” palette to map the narrow-band emissions of oxygen, hydrogen and sulfur atoms in blue, green and red colors respectively, and also mixing the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters (RGB) to give the stars the colors they really have. Not far in the sky of NGC 896, the famous Double Star Cluster of Perseus, IC 1795 can be said to be part of IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star-forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud in the constellations of Perseus and Cassiopeia. Only 6,000 light-years away separate it from us.