IC 59 and IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebulae (Marc Whitsett)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas) · Contains: HD5342 · HD5890 · IC 59 · IC 63 · LBN 620 · LBN 622 · LBN 623 · LBN 625 · Sh2-185 · gamma Cas nebula

IC 59 and IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebulae

I used a desaturated version with hover to depict the "Ghost" a little better!

IC 59 and IC 63 are a combination of faint, arc-shaped emission and reflection nebulae, located about 600 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Together they are approximately 10 light-years across.

These are generally more difficult to image especially in light polluted skies.

I only used 11 hours of data and am considering dedicating more time to this since more imaging time should give me more detail. However, imaging time is scarce where I reside in Bortle 6/7 skies.

I encourage people to look at the image rendered by Galactic Hunter using a RASA 8 at f/2 in Bortle 2 skies with 10 hours of data*. What a difference fast optics combined with dark skies make!

*https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/ic59-and-ic63

This is also the first ever image taken with the ASI Air Plus using the ZWO EAF and I will tell you that this made a huge difference in my star results. Of course, it no longer really matters since BlurXTerminator just released V4 which is absolutely incredible and so star half flux diameter [HFD] is not nearly as critical. I still love my EAF and highly recommend for those serious about the best images possible.

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Open and Globular Cluster [non-Messier]

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Astrometry.net job	8926664
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RA (center)	00h58m47s.537
RA (top/left)	00h55m28s.962
RA (top/right)	01h02m39s.754
RA (bottom/right)	01h02m10s.287
RA (bottom/left)	00h54m51s.684

Dec (center)	+61°04′29″.29
Dec (top/left)	+60°43′59″.99
Dec (top/right)	+60°50′04″.58
Dec (bottom/right)	+61°24′39″.90
Dec (bottom/left)	+61°18′29″.65

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