NGC 7380 - Wizard Ne...

NGC 7380 - Wizard Nebula (Reprocessed) by Paul Hutchinson

 

Wikipedia: NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. ...

Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer.

 

Technical card

Imaging telescope: Skywatcher Explorer 200p

Imaging camera: Canon 1100D

Mount: HEQ5

Guiding telescope: SkyWatcher 50mm/162mm Finderscope

Guiding camera: QHYCCD qhy-5 II

Software: APT - Astro Photography Tool, DeepSkyStacker, Adobe PhotoshopCS5

Filters: Astronomik CLS Canon EOS Clip

Date: 2015-10-12

Frames: 26 x 300" ISO 3200

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 5.00

Centre (RA, hms):22h 47m 03.092s

Centre (Dec, dms):+58° 05' 36.034"

Size:54.4 x 37.8 arcmin

Radius:0.552 deg

Pixel scale:1.06 arcsec/pixel

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