The Ghost of Gamma Cassiopeia

[Spongey]

First image from the new back garden 😀  We have thankfully had reasonable weather in the south recently, with some good new moon imaging time. Light pollution is slightly worse than from my previous location, but the ease of setup hugely outweighs the negatives.

Navi was a tough one to control in this image, and I'm not entirely happy with the final process, but after four full re-works from scratch I have called it a day.

This is a 25.4hr HaLRGB image, processed using the emissionless technique to accentuate the background dust, with Ha re-added afterwards. There is an awful lot going on in the background in this region, with a nice SNR in the bottom-left corner showing in the Ha master, which looks like a mini-veil nebula. I have searched the SIMBAD database for this in Aladin but can't find anything; if anyone knows the designation of this, please let me know!

Full equipment details and Ha mouseover can be found on my astrobin.

 

Cheers

[Magnum]

I like it

[Mr Spock]

Lovely image 👍

[Spongey]

On 07/12/2023 at 09:22, Magnum said:

I like it

On 07/12/2023 at 10:06, Mr Spock said:

Lovely image 👍

Thank you both!

[Allinthehead]

I really like this especially the little dusty bits and you've controlled Gamma Cas very well.