Exposure: 11.75 hrs Total; 3.75 hrs 3 nm Astrodon H-a, 4 hrs each 3 nm Astrodon SII and OIII

Color Mapping: Hubble Palette: Blue = OIII; green = H-a, and; red = SII

Imaging Camera: Apogee Alta U16M (KAF16803 4k x 4k) at -25C, Apogee AI-FW50-7s filter wheel

Guiding Camera: SBIG ST-402 on Astrodon MonsterMOAG off-axis guider

Telescope: RCOS 16" RC tube, f/8.4

Location: Sierra-Remote Observatories, Shaver Lake, CA

Date Taken: August 7-10, 2008

Moon: Half

Data Acquisition: CCDAutoPilot4 running Maxim 4.62.

Processing: CCDStack, Registar, Photoshop CS3

IC 1848 (W5) is at the eastern edge of a giant stellar nursery near Cassiopeia about 7,000 light years distant
This region is part of a larger emission complex known as the Soul Nebula, with the Heart Nebula, IC 1805 nearby.
This image is ~ 35 arcmin square.