RA 14.8702° · Dec 60.9117° · openngc
16 more points to reach Epic.
IC 63 is a rare nebula. It sits in the constellation Cas and shines at apparent magnitude 13.33.
An H II region: a cloud of hydrogen being ionised by the ultraviolet flood from hot young stars inside it. Every one is a star factory caught mid-production.
Look for IC 63 in the constellation Cas. At apparent magnitude 13.33, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.
Like any astronomical target, IC 63 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
IC 63 scores 34 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 16 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Nebula, Star-forming region, Never sets (northern circumpolar), Big on the sky and Faint fuzzy (mag > 13) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.