The Ghosts of Gamma Cas
Image Credit & Copyright: Guillaume Gruntz, Jean-François Bax
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APOD: 2023 October 28 - The Ghosts of Gamma Cas
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Philip C James
in reply to (moving) APOD • • •One's sense of wonder extends to trying to imagine what the night sky might look like if one stood on a planet captive to a star in such a nebula?
Would 'Dark Skies' be an unfathomable concept to one or would it be a case that the closer one is to an extended object the less one can see it?
Chancerubbage
in reply to (moving) APOD • • •My main question, is the star close enough to the nebula that it is illuminating the nebula? And the answer is, yes, it is. The blue light in the nebula is from the star shown. Gamma Casseopia, the brightest star in Casseopeia about 3 light years away from IC59 and IC63.
Difficult to see with amateur scopes.