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.

Celestron f/5 150mm Newtonian telescope, ZWO ASI533MC Pro camera with L-eNhance cut filter, SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro mount.

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.