IC 63 & 59 - The Ghost of Cassiopeia - HaLRGB (Rafał Szwejkowski)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: 27 Cas) · 27 gam Cas · IC 59 · IC 63 · LBN 620 · LBN 622 · LBN 623 · LBN 625 · LDN 1306 · LDN 1310 · NGC 358 · NGC 433 · PGC 137357 · PGC 137364 · PGC 137369 · PGC 137384 · PGC 137387 · PGC 137436 · PGC 137502 · PGC 137544 · PGC 137594 · PGC 137596 · PGC 2796458 · PGC 2796466 · PGC 2796469 · PGC 2796470 · PGC 2796475 · PGC 2796479 · PGC 2796487 · PGC 2796488 · And 30 more.

IC 63 & 59 - The Ghost of Cassiopeia - HaLRGB

Took me a couple of nights to figure out how to process this, previous experience with the Horsehead Nebula complex came in really handy. Once Ha, Lum, RGB and Stars went through my PI processing sequence I ended up blending these 4 layers in Photoshop. The image required very fine adjustments and the immediate feedback given in Photoshop made that task manageable.

There's often debate PI vs. Photoshop but for me there's no debate: both are quite amazing and complement each other.

I originally had the traditional bluish hue of the reflective nebula, but in processing the vanilla color just won me over, so I picked that version as final. While Gamma Cas certainly does produce blue reflectivity, the fantastical mood of the picture allows, in my opinion, that sort of departure from realism.

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Astrometry.net job	6481643
PixInsight job	U58ZC4XKM8J26HCGRC55Q42ZKIA77C9M
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RA (center)	01h03m25s.31
RA (top/left)	00h49m38s.87
RA (top/right)	01h03m31s.63
RA (bottom/right)	01h16m38s.88
RA (bottom/left)	01h03m18s.74

Dec (center)	+60°40′08″.0
Dec (top/left)	+61°17′59″.1
Dec (top/right)	+58°52′53″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+59°57′07″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+62°27′15″.2

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