Filtered IC63

First shot from our cottage this year. IC-63, known as the Ghost of Cassiopeia is being shaped and eroded by the radiation from Navi,  Gamma Cassiopeia. According to website Science Daily, IC-63 is about 550 lightyears distant. This is just two hours of data collected from the dark skies at our cottage in Marion Bridge using an APO and an Optolong L-enHance light pollution filter. The combination handled the halo from the bright star, Navi, in the upper left of the image. If the weather holds I'll be collecting more data on this one so I can cut down on the noise reduction a bit. Click on the image to see a higher resolution version and click again to return to this page.

Object The Ghost of Cassiopeia  RA 00:59:29 Dec 60:55:03 Date 31 July, 2021 Exposure 5 hours (20 X 15 minutes) Conditions Bortle 3 skies with some smoke from forest fires on the other side of the country Gain 100 Camera Zwo ASI2600MC-Pro Optics Prime focus of a  SkyWatcher Esprit 120 f/7 APO refractor with a focal length of 840 mm Filter Optolong L-eNhance Location Marion Bridge, Nova Scotia Processing This image was captured using Sequence Generator Pro. Split star processed similar to this.