NGC7380 - The Wizard Nebula

(slight reprocess and rotation to better see "the wizard")

 

 

Description from NASA APOD:

Located only 8,000 light years away, the Wizard nebula, pictured above, 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. The active star forming region spans 100 about light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

 

 

All sub exposures were acquired from my backyard on Oct, 1-4 2013.

- 25 x 30m Ha (5nm)

- 25 x 30m OIII (3nm)

- 25 x 30m SII (3nm)

 

 

Total exposure time: 37.5 hours

 

 

Equipment:

Main Camera: QSI 583 WSG

Guide Camera: SXV Lodestar (on OAG)

Mount: Astro-Physics Mach 1

Scope: Celestron Edge HD 8" with 0.7x reducer (FL: ~1480mm)

Image Aquisition software MaximDL

Registed, Calibrated and Stacked in MaximDL

Post Processed with PixInsight 1.8 and Photoshop CS6

Done