Cassiopeia Area
There are many nice objects in this image of the Milky Way near Cassiopeia as discussed in the table below, plus I believe that is open cluster Caldwell C28, NGC 752, on the lower right.
| Heart & Soul (or Heart and Sole) Nebulae at the bottom |  Heart & Soul |
| The Double Cluster just to the right of that |  (NGC 869 & NGC 884) |
| M31 over on the far/upper right |  M31 image |
| Pac Man Nebula to the left of M31 |  NGC 281, the Pacman Nebula (Pac Man Nebula) |
| NGC 7822 on the upper left |  NGC7822/Ced 214 |
This is a mosaic using the Canon 20Da (Modified) camera with a Nikon 28mm f2.8 lens at f4. Consists of 23 frames combined with 15 frames at 4 min each, about 2.5 hours total exposure. Canon 20Da (modified), AP 900GTO mount. QHY8 CCD Camera. Other pictures from the camera are are here. I use this Astronomy Image Processing Workflow.
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