IC 63 - “The Ghost of Cassiopeia” in LHaRGB, ~10 hours (Making a silk purse out of Sow's Ear) (Cosgrove's Cosmos (Patrick Cosgrove))

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: 27 gam Cas · IC 59 · IC 63 · LBN 620 · LBN 622 · LBN 623 · LBN 625 · Sh2-185 · The star Navi (γCas) · gamma Cas nebula

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IC 63 - “The Ghost of Cassiopeia” in LHaRGB, ~10 hours (Making a silk purse out of Sow's Ear)

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ic63-lhargb

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IC 63 - “The Ghost of Cassiopeia” in LHaRGB, ~10 hours (Making a silk purse out of Sow's Ear)

Link: https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ic63-lhargb

IC 63 - The Ghost of Cassiopeia is the result of just under 10 hours of wideband and narrowband data collected during the incredible stretch of weather we just had in western NY November 5-8, 2021. I ended up getting in 4 nights of capture on 3 scopes and collected data on 9 Targets!

This is the fourth image I have been able to process from this trove of data.

This was taken with my Wiliam Optics 132mm FLT APO scope, the IOptron CEM60 mount, and the ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro camera.

I would love to say that the data collected was perfect and the image that resulted was easily achieved through processing but that is simply not true. This one was a bit of a nightmare! I lost frames due to cloud cover, the image from night one ended up having a different camera rotation compared to the other nights, and finally, dust on the lens caused some bloated stars and a HORRIBLE artifact of sensor microlens reflections on the bright star Gamma Cas -- Arrrrrggggggh!

The processing on this one was a real challenge to rescue any kind of decent image!

See the Full details on the capture and extensive processing notes for this image are available on my website at the link below:

https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/ic63-lhargb

Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks for looking!

Pat

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RA (center)	00h58m54s.294
RA (top/left)	00h57m31s.799
RA (top/right)	00h55m42s.409
RA (bottom/right)	01h00m14s.510
RA (bottom/left)	01h02m10s.452

Dec (center)	+60°55′28″.36
Dec (top/left)	+61°24′02″.45
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Dec (bottom/right)	+60°26′50″.30
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