297 DeepSky+Heart Nebula IC 1805+Brian Sams+US My name is Brian Sams. Im from USA. This is for the Deep sky category. This is entry 3 of 3. It is the Heart Nebula 1805 Taken on 11-15-2022 from my backyard in Maple Valley, Washington USA. (Bortle 5.5) Equipment used: Telescope: William optics zenithstar 73 with flattener Guide camera: William optics uniguide 50mm Mount: Celestron advanced AVX Cameras used: main camera= Zwo asi 2600mc pro. Guide camera= zwo asi 120mm mini Filter used: optolong L-Enhance Technical info: Light frames: 84x300 seconds, gain 100, offset 50, temp. -15 Which came out to 7 hours I used 30 flats and flat darks. And 40 darks for this project Programs used: NINA to capture images and control everything. PHD2 for guiding. Pixinsight for stacking and editing. RC astro noiseXterminator and starXterminator. Photoshop About the image: I have been wanting to image this object ever since I started imaging 2 years ago. I thought I couldn’t image it from my backyard due to trees. But I managed to find a corner of the yard I could just see it over the trees. Unfortunately the sky conditions were not good. It was clear. But poor seeing conditions. And i had to deal with heavy smoke from a neighbors obnoxious outdoor fire all night long. And the occasional light fog rolling in. But here in the pacific north west. We don’t get many clear nights this time of year. And I really wanted to image this target with my new astro camera. This is the 3rd image I have taken with it now. So I just went for it anyway. And I’m glad I did! I think it turned out well. I used pixinsight to stack it with WBPP. I used SPCC for color calibration. And used starXterminator and noiseXterminator. Then I used the generalized hyperbolic stretch script in pixinsight. Then histogram transformation and curves. I then used photoshop to recombine the starless image with the stars. Then did a final contrast enhancement.