Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cassiopeia (Cas)  ·  Contains:  27 Cas)  ·  27 gam Cas  ·  IC 59  ·  IC 63  ·  NGC 381  ·  Sh2-185  ·  The star Navi (γ Cas  ·  gamma Cas nebula
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IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia, Jason Coon
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IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia

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IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia, Jason Coon
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IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia

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This was a difficult target, being very faint and withing a crowded star field, I knew it would be hard to captured enough light to bring out the nebulosity while not blowing out the stars.  So I decided to capture them separately.  The nebulosity was captured with 180s exposures with the NBZ UHS filter, while the stars were captured using 10s exposures with the LPS-D3 filter.  StarteXterminator was used to separate the stars and nebulosity, and the desired results were joined together with PixelMath.  I also used Bill Blanshan's HOO Normalization script to get more of a Hubble-like palette.

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IC 63 Ghost of Cassiopeia, Jason Coon