Ghost nebula

Image Description and Details : The Ghost Nebula is a reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. In this portrait you can see all the galactic space dust in our milky way Galaxy. In the bottom middle is the ghost nebula the name easily understood and is 2 light-years across.

Taken Northwest Missouri September 30 through October 18 at the Backyard country observatory, using a Orion 8 inch f3.9 newtonian astrograph, with a coma correcter. Canon 60d unmodified, autoguider orion starshoot 60mm guide scope, all on a celestron AVX mount.

3 night session total of 8 hours integration with 4 minutes subs of RAW exposures, ISO-1250

stacked using deep sky stacker. Pixlinsight dynamic crop, dynamic background ext, non linear stretch in histrogram tran, NoiseXTerminator, star mask using the morphology trans for star reduction, added a luminous mask used curves, for saturation’s,
Photoshop: saturations adjustments, color balance, highlights, selective color adjustments, smart sharpening.

Copyright: Jared Bowens