IC 63 the ghost nebula in Ha

[Luis Campos]

As usual lately it's been a struggle with the weather and this image has been no exception, fighting the big o'l moon and some hazy skies with thin high clouds. Well, managed to capture 14x900 secs with a mono & TEC cooled Canon 550D during an entire week and although conditions were nasty still got haunted by the ghost Could be better...but it could also be worst.

Setup used: Altair Astro 200mm f/4 newt. (Stopped down to 175mm f/ 4.6), Baader MPCC, Baader 7 nm Ha filter ( 36mm version), EQ6 mount, stack of 14x900 secs at 1600 ISO and 5Cº on the sensor.

Hope you like it,

[laudropb]

Very nice capture. Thanks for posting.

[Luis Campos]

Thank you!