The Ghost of Cassiopeia 👻

The Ghost of Cassiopeia
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Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long, flowing veils of gas and dust. One striking example is "the Ghost of Cassiopeia," officially known as IC 63, located 550 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.
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The nebula’s ethereal glow might remind people of apparitions such as those reported by paranormal investigators. In reality, it's simply hydrogen that is being bombarded with ultraviolet radiation from the nearby, blue-giant star Gamma Cassiopeiae seen as yellow here - this is purely narrowband data and i chose to assign the colours in such a way that typically deep red hydrogen is blue here and a typically blue looking star appears yellow.
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I did animate this back in April using my old method and was never really happy with the result, so I re-did it and I like this one a lot more, I hope that you enjoy.
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6.5 hrs total integration
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Data from @telescope.live Takahashi FSQ-106ED/FLI PL 16803, processed by me @jjlodge using PixInsight, GraXpert, RC Astro Tools, Photoshop and animated in DaVinci Resolve.
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