21 8-minute lights plus calibration frames were stacked using ImagesPlus; photometric calibration and background extraction using SiriL; other post-processing with Photoshop CS2 plus Astronomy Tools plugin, StarNet++, ImagesPlus and Microsoft Photo.

IC63 is an emission nebula located in Cassiopeia. The nebula's eerie shape is the reason that it is referred to as The Ghost of Cassiopeia. The bright blue-white star is Gamma Cassiopeiae, which emits powerful ultraviolet radiation that is slowly eroding the nebula, in spite of it being several light years from the star.