Spooky nebulae

 

Nebula IC 63 in Cassiopeia. The bright star is Gamma Cassiopeiae

The sky is full of mysteries, but we’ve picked out a few that look particularly spooky for Halloween. All the pictures were taken by Nick Hart from his observatory in light-polluted Newport, South Wales. 

A ghostly apparition in Cepheus – the nebula IC 1396

Among the stars at centre of NGC 1977 in Orion is a figure covered with a sheet to scare us

A witches’ cauldron? No, the nebula IC 5070 in Cygnus.

All photos copyright Nick Hart