The Heart Nebula

IC1805 The Heart Nebula - Cassiopeia - Centre RA -02^h 32^m 42.103^s DEC - +61° 27' 19.800"  Size 41.3 x 41.3 arcmin 
 Autonomous Robotic Telescope - Open University -PIRATE Telescope S, Ha and O111 filters
 3 minute exposure   .

"The poor weather continues to prevent the use of the optical telescopes at the Jodrell Plank Observatory. Today, I recalibrated the Software Defined Radio at the heart of the LVST radio telescope and switched it on to record the Perseid Meteor shower 2017. Hopefully, we will be able to collect data showing the numbers of meteors detected rising to a maximum at around or about the 12th. of August and then a decline through to the beginning of September. In the mean time to punctuate the boredom of cloudy skies I have had Pip Stakkert work on the digital manipulation of the PIRATE image of IC1805. I think his 'heart' was in it"! - Kurt Thrust - current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.