Object Note
Nov 2, 2020    

Sharpless 2-190 also known as the Heart Nebula. The entire complex encompassing well over a degree in RA and two degrees in declination.

There are multiple associated catalog numbers encompassing this nebula complex as ever better observations and photography revealed fainter structure. NGC 896 being the bright knot in the northwest reach. IC 1805, the embedded star cluster at the center was first described by E. E. Barnard in the late 1890's. There is also IC 1795, a bright area of emission to the northwestern end of the complex also described by Barnard, and IC 1831, a faint streamer of emission to the northeast discovered by Max Wolfe in 1906.

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