“Hooray new data at last”

Though I could’ve re-processed my previous data of this image but decided it’s about time I got some new images. This is less integrated time but exposures were 6 min each and I used my new 6nm Ha filter. I imaged for 5.5h but could only use 4h due to light clouds at times.

Note:

I removed all the stars after the initial processing using StarNet++ and then added the Ha stars back in at the end.

NGC 7380 (Sh2-142) also commonly known as the “Wizard Nebula” is an open cluster with nebulosity. It’s a star forming region some 7,200 Light Years from earth and spans about 100 light years, it has an apparent magnitude of about 7.2.

EQUIPMENT:-

Telescope Meade 6000 115mm and AZ-EQ6 GT

ZWO ASI1600mm-Cool cmos camera

Orion Mini Auto Guide

Astronomik 6nm Ha Filter (New)

Astronomik 6nm Oiii Filter

Chip Temp Cooled to -20 degC

IMAGING DETAILS:-

NGC 7380 Wizard Nebula (Cepheus)

Gain 139 (Unit Gain)

Dithering

20 Ha subs@360 (2h)

20 Oiii subs@360sec (2h 00)

Total imaging Time 4h

20 Darks

25 Flats

PROCESSING/GUIDING SOFTWARE:-

APT "Astro Photograph Tools"

StarNet++

DSS

PS CS2

NGC7380 or Sh2-142 - The Wizard nebula - is approximately 8000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus.

This is a reprocess of some old data as I was never happy with the original

Details

M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse

T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x

C: Atik 460EXM with 3nm narrowband filters

24x1800s Ha

15x1800s OIII

15x1800s SII

Total integration time - 27 hours

DESCRIPTION: I took data in two sessions under not so good weather conditions. 175 min total integration time looks not so enough too. Better weather and much more time is needed… I would very appreciate your comments or tips.

OBJECT: NGC 7380, Wizard Nebula, Constelation Cepheus, apparent magnitude 7,2, apparent dimension 25 arcmin, FOV 2 x 1,3 arcdeg, More info - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7380

GEAR: Nikon Z7 Kolari Full Spectrum + Nikkor 500/5,6 PF, Rollei Astroklar Light Pollution filter, pixel scale 1.79 arcsec/px, tracking mount iOptron CEM60EC - 3 star alignment, no auto guiding, dew heater.

ACQUISITION: September 12 + 18, 2020, Struz, CZ, 14 Subs á 300 s, ISO 400 + 35 Subs á 180 s, ISO 640, f 5,6, Interval 20 s, Darks 40x, Bias 20x, Flats 30x. Total exposure time 175 min. Night, breeze, hazy, 10C, no Moon, Light pollution - Bortle 5.

STACKING AND POST PROCESSING: AstroPixelProcessor (stacking, background neutralization, light pollution removal, calibrate background and stars colors) , Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 (stretching, black and white point settings, star reduction and dim, enhance DSO, colour balance, no noise reduction, contrast setting and sharpening). Cropped 4,3x, image size 3970 x 2646 px.

An open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog. This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually.

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. (I personally don't see that)

Image capture details: (6h 20m)

Ha-9x1,200sec (3h)

OIII-5x1,200sec((1h 40m)

SII-5x1,200sec(1h 40m)

Imaging Equipment:

SharpStar 140PH Triplet

Celestron CGEM II mount (hypertuned),

ZWOASI1600MM Pro camera

The Start of Something New

Planet Dokeia

Interplanetary Travel

And I'm on the verge of saying goodbye again. We have come to the end of another adventure together again. We still haven't found the Plunonians. Unfortunately, I have not encountered any civilization on this planet, which I have visited and named Dokeia, on which I have lived for a while. I was quite surprised that I did not encounter a civilization on this planet suitable for life. Just like the other life-friendly planets I have visited, the planet Dokeia was one of the abandoned habitable planets. Why were these habitable planets abandoned? What was the force that drove the civilizations living on it to leave these planets? These are questions that I still don't know the answers to. I have not encountered any negatives so far. When I find lost civilizations, I think I will have learned the answers to these questions. If I can find them. When I started space travel, while I was looking for a planet suitable for life, the fact that I found dozens of planets suitable for life and that they were all abandoned frightened me. What could be the power that frightened entire civilizations to leave their planets? The prospect of encountering this power in my interplanetary travels frightened me. What could I do alone in the face of the force that pushed huge civilizations to abandon their planets? In order to overcome my fears, I stop asking myself some questions. And I don't pay attention to every detail. Otherwise, my interplanetary journey might come to an end. I don't want to go back to my planet until I complete this mission I've been on.

Camera: Canon EOS Kiss X7i

Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu

Location: Outer space (space)

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NGC 7380 also known as the Wizard nebula. It is actually an open star cluster that has nebulosity associated with it it. Located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy.

The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster.

Check out a larger res image on my website www.swagastro.com/ngc7380-wizard.html

Taken with the Dual Takahashi rig the exposure details are

M: Skywatcher EQ8

T: Tak FSQ 85

C: Astrodon Ha, OIII and SII filters

48x1800s Ha

48x1800s OIII

24x1800s SII

​Totalling 60 hours of total exposure time

This data was taken in 2019.

The area in Cepheus containing NGC 7380 (upper left), aka the Wizard Nebula, as well as the famous double and variable star Delta Cephei, at top centre. The star at upper right is Zeta Cephei. The brighter nebula between the two stars is Sharpless 2-136. The large nebula at lower right, containing both red hydrogen-alpha and green oxygen-III emission regions, is Sharpless 2-132, aka the Lion Nebula. The field of view here is 6° by 4°.

This is a blend of a stack of 8 x 12-minutes at ISO 1600 through an IDAS NB1 narrowband filter, with a stack of 14 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 800 with a "clear" Astronomik UV-IR Cut filter, all with the Canon EOS Ra camera through the SharpStar 76mm apo refractor at f/4.4 with its field flattener/reducer. Autoguided and dithered with the MGEN3 auto-guider. No darks or LENR employed. Faint nebulosity brought out with the aid of luminosity masks created with Lumenzia.

NGC 7380 Also known as the Wizard Nebula is an open star cluster in the constellation of Cepheus.

This is a crop of Luminance data collected with the 11" Hyperstar & QHY163M on 9/2/2018. I added older 2016 RGB data for color.

LUM- 135x30sec- QHY163M & 11" Celestron w/Hyperstar

RGB- 18x120sec/each(1h 48m) QHY23M & 11" Celestron w/Hyperstar

Wizard Nebula (nebulosity around NGC 7380 ) Stack of 35 * 240 sec from my light polluted patio.

Yesterday night I had the changes to photograph the Wizard Nebula. It was quite cold outside

A cropped Bi-Color processing test of the Wizard Nebula (Sharpless Sh2-142). It is a reasonably large nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus, about 7,200 light-years from Earth.

The Wizard nebula surrounds a developing open star cluster catalogued as NGC 7380. The active star forming region spans 100 about light-years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon.

The Wizard Nebua is always very low on the horizon at my latitude in the Southern Hemisphere. Imaging Deep Sky Objects that are low on the horizon is a challenge due to "atmospheric seeing", dust and light pollution that is in greater abundance.

Imaged in Narrowband:

Hydrogen-Alpha (656.3nm)

Oxygen-III (500.7nm)

Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,

and finished in Photoshop.

My philosophy when it comes to processing Narrowband images in different wavelengths of the light spectrum:

"Capturing Data is Science, but Processing it is Art".

Astrometry Info:

RA, Dec center: 341.832842805, 58.0442012636 degrees

Orientation: 0.331857092543 deg E of N

Pixel scale: 2.36074357005 arcsec/pixel

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HSO Komposit with RGB stars.

ZWO ASI2600mm-pro and TS Photoline 130/910 mm

62 x 30 s R

60 x 30 s G

61 x 30 s B

45 x 200s Ha

46 x 200s OIII

63 x 200s SII

NGC7380 or the Wizard Nebula as it is commonly known as, is an emmision nebula in the constelation of Cepheus

Image Details:

Acquisition Dates:Sept. 20, 2019, Sept. 21, 2019, Sept. 30, 2019, Dec. 6, 2019, Dec. 9, 2019, Dec. 20, 2019, Dec. 25, 2019, Dec. 31, 2019

Frames:

Astronomik Ha 6nm: 51x300" (gain: 11.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astronomik OIII 6nm: 51x300" (gain: 11.00) -20C bin 1x1

Astronomik SII 6nm: 51x300" (gain: 11.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 12.8 hours

Darks: ~101

Flats: ~101

Flat darks: ~101

Avg. Moon age: 15.36 days

Avg. Moon phase: 43.95%

Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4.00

Equipment Details:

Imaging Scope: Sharpstar Optics 15028HNT Hyperboloid Astrograph Reflector

Imaging Camera: Qhyccd 183M Mono ColdMOS at -20C

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Guide Scope: Sky-Watcher Finder Scope

Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ltd Lodestar X2

Filters: Astronomik 36mm RGB F2.2 Certified

Filterwheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW

Power and USB Control: Pegasus Astro Ultimate USB Hub

Focuser: Primalucelab Sesto Senso Auto Focuser

Image Acquisition Software: Main Sequence Software SGPro

Guide Software: PHD 2

Processing Software: PixInsight

This is a quick combination of older RGB data shot with my Pentax K3 ii and 2 hours of Ha-data shot with my actual ZWO ASI1600mmpro.

RGB: 96 x 300s @ ISO 800 Pentax K3 ii

Ha: 25 x 300s gain 139 ASI1600mmpro with Baader 36mm Ha filter.

TS 130/910 apo refractor on Skywatcher EQ6-R. All on my home balcony in Bortle 5 zone.

HSO Komposit with RGB stars.

ZWO ASI2600mm-pro and TS Photoline 130/910 mm

62 x 30 s R

60 x 30 s G

61 x 30 s B

45 x 200s Ha

46 x 200s OIII

63 x 200s SII

NGC7380 The Wizard Nebula imaged in narrowband 1 hour each for Ha, Sii and Oiii channels

Hubble Palette, Gold Turquoise motif

New Mexico Skies 10th October 2016

Starless Wizard Nebula (ngc7380)

Found in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way and is 7000 light years from Earth with a radius of 100 light years.

Equipment used;

QHY268M

FRA600 Telescope

CGX Mount

Astronomik narrowband filters

Capture details;

48 x 300 Ha

36 x 300 Sii

36 x 300 Oiii

No calibration frames.

Software used;

SGP, PHD2, Pixinsight & Photoshop

Re-process of my previous upload, and with a false green channel, for a more "natural" look.

Natural insofar as something that you can't see and doesn't actually exist can look natural! These things are like clouds - they may have a discernible shape from down here but get up there amongst them and they're just mist - an unimaginably fine and tenuous "mist" in the case of these objects. Add this to the fact that this thing is about 150 lights years wide anyway, and you realise it's all an illusion. We take images of illusions - and we worry about getting the colour right. Cool :)

ED80 with 0.85 reducer, HEQ5 pro

Cooled mono Canon 450D

Astronomik 12nm Ha and Olll filters

10 x 1200 seconds Ha, 9 x 1200 seconds Olll

Calibrated and stacked in Nebulosity

Processed with Straton and CS5

The Wizard Nebula envelopes the open cluster designated NGC 7380. It is about 8,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Cepheus.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED, ZWO ASI071mc-Pro running at -10C, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro mount, 36 x 300 second exposures (calibrated with darks from the library), 2" Optolong L-eNhance filter, guided using a ZWO 30mm f/4 mini guide scope and ZWO 120 Mini, controlled with a ZWO ASIAir Pro running v1.5 Beta software, processed in PixInsight. Image date: December 7, 2020. Location: The Dark Side Observatory, Weatherly, PA, USA.

Camera: Atik 314L+

Scope: Orion EON 80ED

Filters: Astrodon 3nm Ha, OIII, SII

Exposure data: Ha: 20 x 1500s, 9 x 1200s (total: 11 hrs, 20 min), OIII: 12 x 1200s (3 hrs), SII: 12 x 1200s (3 hrs).

Total exposure time: 16 hrs 20 min

Final image I took from the Staunton River Star Party 2016, although this is a combination of data from 3 different star parties over the years. I had only ever taken Ha on this and finally shot the rest of the narrowband palette this trip.

Notes: I decided to add some star spikes on the final image just 'cause I was in the mood for them today :) I also cropped it a little more than the original Ha just to highlight the main portion of the nebula. This was started in 2011/2012, more data taken in 2014, and finally finished up this year ... that's what I get for forgetting what images I start and need to get more data on.

The Wizard Nebula (ngc7380)

Found in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way and is 7000 light years from Earth with a radius of 100 light years.

Quite pleased with this one it was pretty much a full moon when I collected the data. :)

Equipment used;

QHY268M

FRA600 Telescope

CGX Mount

Astronomik narrowband filters

Capture details;

48 x 300 Ha

36 x 300 Sii

36 x 300 Oiii

No calibration frames.

Software used;

SGP, PHD2, Pixinsight & Photoshop

#my_astrophotography

The #Wizard

NGC 7380 is a young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus, discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. The surrounding emission nebulosity is known colloquially as the Wizard Nebula, which spans an angle of 25′.

Distance from Earth 8000 Light years.

Equipment :

152mm David H. Levy Comet Hunter

Mount

AZ-EQ5 GoTo Mount

Camera

ZWO ASI294 mc pro

Guide Camera

ZWO ASI120MC

Imaging Software

Astro Photography Tool

Stacked

DeePSkYStacker

Pixinsight

Lightroom

45 Light images

180 sec. Each

15 Flats

20 Dark

100 bias

Borlt 4/5

No filters

NGC7380 - The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus. Imaged from London in HaOiiiOii. 70 minutes Ha on 2nd October 2019, 70 minutes Oiii on the 4th October. The integration time for each channel is shorter than I would like due to a tree branch getting in the way around 70 minutes after darkness falls!

TS65 Quad Astrograph & ASI1600MM Pro camera

We're off to see the wizard...

Lying at a distance of 8,000 light years, this cloud of gas and dust appears to span nearly one degree across. Its low surface brightness however makes this a challenging subject.

This image was captured under high desert skies near Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA with a telescope of 12" aperture at f/4.5 and an electrically-cooled CCD camera. This bi-colored image was taken through hydrogen-alpha (red) and oxygen-III (blue green) narrow-band filters.

NGC7380 Wizard Nebula

I decided to re-image NGC7380, this time with the FLT132 and FLAT8 reducer. I had imaged this one before with the FLT91 (see flic.kr/p/2oWf1hi) and I wanted to see the difference in detail with the larger aperture. As nights are short and only darkish where I live, I imaged this target over three separate nights, getting around 3.5 hours each night.

NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster.

Equipment:

- William Optics FLT132 with FLAT8 0.72x reducer/flattener

- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera with Optolong L'Ultimate 3nm Ha & Oiii dualband filter

- AM5 mount with ASIAir plus

- Processed with PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2

Integration:

10 hours and 39 minutes in 3m, 5m and 10m subs.

Darks, Flats and Bias frames.

More integration details: astrob.in/7p7u6l/0/

Thanks for looking.

Clear Skies,

Eduardo

Final version of the The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus. Ha-RGB combination of color data from a Pentax K3ii and hydrogfen alpha data from an Asi1600mmpro with 7mm Baader Ha filter.

24 x 300s Ha at gain 139.

96 x 300s RGB at ISO 800.

TA 130/910 mm apo refractor.

Le condizioni meteo, nel periodo autunno-inverno non sono favorevoli per l'astrofotografia, soprattutto quando si è costretti ad acquisire tante ore di integrazione.

Mi ero dedicato alla "Nebulosa Mago"

(Sh2-142) associata all'ammasso aperto "NGC7380", ma non ho avuto la possibilità di acquisire le tante ore necessarie quando si utilizzano filtri a banda stretta.

Questa volta però ho pensato di unire insieme anche l'acquisizione fatta il mese precedente con un altro telescopio (Scopos TL805). Forse non ho aggiunto dettagli ma un pò di SNR l'ho guadagnato, ottenendo un'immagine gradevole e recuperando un discreto segnale debole Ha.

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The weather conditions in the autumn-winter period are not favourable for astrophotography, especially when you are forced to acquire many hours of integration.

I had dedicated myself to "Wizard Nebula"

(Sh2-142) associated with the open cluster "NGC7380", but I did not have the opportunity to acquire the many hours necessary when using narrow-band filters.

This time, however, I thought of combining the acquisition made the previous month with another telescope (Scopos TL805). Maybe I did not add details but I gained a bit of SNR, obtaining a pleasant image and recovering a fairly weak signal Ha.

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Optics: APO Refractor Askar 103APO + 0.6X and Scopos TL805+0.8X

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro

Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan

Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)

Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2"

-85x300s 121gain /26 dark /21 flat / 18 darkflat /100 bias (with Scopos TL805+0.8X)

-69x300s 121gain /26 dark /21 flat / 18 darkflat /100 bias (with Askar 103APO)

t° sensor: -10°C

Date: 29/10/2024, 03+16/11/2024, 10+16/12/2024

Integration: 12h 50min

Temperature: 6°C (media)

location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm

Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding

Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert.

NGC 7380 im Sternbild Kepheus,

102x2 Minuten,

750mm Brennweite

Scheda tecnica:

Telescopio o obiettivo di acquisizione: TS Optics APO102 triplet fpl53

Camera di acquisizione: Canon 60Da

Montatura: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

Telescopio o obiettivio di guida: Orion Short Tube 80/400

Camera di guida: Skywatcher Synguider 2

Riduttore di focale: TS Optics 0,79x Reducer 4-element

Software: Pleiades Astrophoto S.L. PixInsight V1.8

Filtra: IDAS LPS D1

Risoluzione: 3000x1969

Date: 05 agosto 2016

Pose: 30x300" ISO800

Integrazione: 2.5 ore

Dark: ~13

Flat: ~21

Bias: ~41

I've been waiting to do this for some time. Never thought I'd be able to until the cooled DSLR came to the rescue :) A target that looks so much better in NB I think.

ED80 with 0.85 reducer, HEQ5 pro

Cooled mono Canon 450D

Astronomik 12nm Ha and Olll filters

10 x 1200 seconds Ha, 9 x 1200 seconds Olll

Calibrated and stacked in Nebulosity

Processed with Straton and CS5

NGC 7380 - Wizard Nebula - Narrowband

NGC 7380, Wizard Nebula is located in the constellation Cepheus and located 7200 light years away. This is a combined Ha, OIII and SII image shot over two consecutive nights.

Equipment Used :

Sky-watcher Esprit 80

ASI1600MM-C (cooled to -15)

ZWO 8 position filter wheel

Baader 7nm Ha 1.25" filter

Baader 8.5nm OIII 1.25" filter

Baader 8nm SII 1.25" filter

HEQ5 Pro Goto

Guiding :

Sky-watcher 50mm finder/guider

QHY5L-IIc

PHD2

Image acquisition :

Ha (mapped to Red) : 15 x 300 second lights

OIII (mapped to Blue) :15 x 300 second lights

SII (mapped to Green) : 15 x 300 second lights

20 x 300 second darks, temp matched

No flats or bias

APT for acquisition

DSS for calibration and stacking

PS CC for post processing

While I’m waiting for some #ClearSkies I thought I would revisit some old data.

Here is a reprocesss of #NGC7380 #WizardNebula taken at Xmas 140min of each Ha, Oiii, Sii 7hours total integration #Astrophotography #space #Astronomy #AstroHour #witns

More info and images in my blog: www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2012/12/the-wizard-nebula-re...

This is NGC 7380 The Wizard Nebula in Cepheus, and I imaged this on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day as it was clear and I'm a sad bugger. :)

Quite small for my setup, and very difficult to process, this is 67 x 300 second subs for just over 5 and a half hours. Looks much better in the Hubble Palette, but I can't do that! :)

Happy New Year guys :)

The Wizard Nebula NGC 7380 is an active star forming region in the constellation Kepheus about 7000 lightyears away from earth.

96 x 300 s at ISO 400.

Pentax K3ii + TS 130/910 apo refractor.

Processing in Astro Pixel Processor and Photoshop CC2018

NGC 7380 is an open cluster in the constellation Cepheus. The emission nebula surrounding the cluster is known as the Wizard Nebula and gets its name from resembling a wizard wearing a tall hat.

NGC 7380 is a very young star cluster at under 12 million years old and is undergoing much active star formationl. A pair of massive supergiant stars near the centre of the nebula are the cause of the ionization and glowing of much of the nebula.

This is older data I shot a couple of summers ago and thought the session was messed up. Turns out I had some usable data in there that was good.

-=Tech Data=-

-Equipment-

Imaging Scope: SkyWatcher Esprit 100

Mount: Celestron CGX

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120 Mini

Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope

- Acquisition -

1 hours 45 minutes of 3 min exposures

- Software -

Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor

Processing: PixInsight

Post Processing: Photoshop CC

Shot at the Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario.

The Wizard Nebula is simply a shape in a cosmic cloud surrounding open star cluster NGC 7380. Over the years it has earned its sorcerous nickname because of its similarity in appearance to a magician in a pointed hat. The Wizard Nebula is located 7,000 lightyears from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy and is found in the constellation Cepheus. This is an active star-forming region, and the stars in NGC 7380 unleash powerful streams of charged particles known as stellar winds that have sculpted the nebula into the wizard shape we see today.

Imaging telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton

Imaging camera:ZWO ASI 183 MM PRO

Mount:SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro Goto

Guiding telescope or lens:GSO 8" f/5 Newton

Guiding camera:Astrolumina Alccd5L-IIc

Focal reducer:Pal Gyulai GPU Aplanatic Koma Korrector 4-element

Software:DeepSky Stacker Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.4, FitsWork 4, Adobe PhotoShop CS5, PHD2 Guiding

Filters:Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm, Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm, Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm

Accessory:TSOptics TS Off Axis Guider - 9mm

Dates:June 21, 2018, June 27, 2018, Sept. 14, 2019, Sept. 15, 2019

Frames:

Baader Ha 1.25" 7nm: 40x600" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium O3 1.25" 8.5nm: 23x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium SII 1.25" 8nm: 18x420" (gain: 200.00) -20C bin 1x1

Integration: 11.5 hours

Darks: ~37

Flats: ~27

Flat darks: ~100

Avg. Moon age: 13.39 days

Avg. Moon phase: 89.80%

RA center: 341.794 degrees

DEC center: 58.052 degrees

Pixel scale: 0.493 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 66.112 degrees

Field radius: 0.447 degrees

Locations: Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany

Data source: Backyard

Object description (wikipedia.org):

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. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter.

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. The active star forming region spans about 100 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.

22h30m total integration (20x1800s Ha bin 1x1, 7x1800s OIII bin 1x1, 9x1800s OIII bin 2x2, 9x1800s SII bin 2x2), Chiswick 25/11//2016-5/12/2016

Altair 115ED/APO, AZ-EQ6, QSI683WSG

Many thanks to Simon Addis for the image processing.

NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter.

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. The active star forming region spans 100 about light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

This is first light with our new Planewave CDK14 Scope (planewave.com/). The heart of the Wizard Nebula. Approximately 7,200 light-years from Earth.

Shot at native focal length (2563mm).

Mesu Mark II friction drive mount (mesu-optics.nl/mesu200_en.html) provided better than image

scale (0.3“ per pixel) guiding.

Rouz Astro’s CDK14 optical train (rouzastro.com/) using Optec Gemini Focuser / Rotator and

Optec Sagitta OAG, ASI 174MM mini Guidecam.

QHY 268M camera, 3nm narrowband filters.

Astrophotography Tool Acquisition Software (astrophotography.app/), PHD2 Guiding.

Image captured over 5 nights; 2023-09-11, 14, 15, 16, & 18

22 hours 40 minutes total integration

Ha subs 34 * 1,200 sec = 11 hours 20 min

OIII subs 20 * 1,200 sec = 6 hours 40 min

SII subs 11 * 1,200 sec = 3 hours 40 min

R, G, B for stars = 1 hour

The Wizard Nebula, NGC7380, is an open cluster and emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It lies some 7200 light years away and extends over 100 light years, making it appear as large as the full moon. However, it's quite faint for visual detection and typically requires an OIII filter to see it. The center of the nebula is an active star forming region bringing life to new stars that form the cluster, which has existed some 4 million years - very short on cosmic timescales.

This image uses the HST assignment of filters where Sulfur-II = Red, H-alpha = Green, and Oxygen-III = Blue.

Details:

Scope: TMB130SS

Camera: QSI683-wsg8

Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Ultrastar

Mount: Mach1 GTO

RGB: 10x5min each

SII: 20x15min

Ha: 16x15min

OIII: 24x15min

17.5 hrs total

The Wizard Nebula is simply a shape in a cosmic cloud surrounding open star cluster NGC 7380. Over the years it has earned its sorcerous nickname because of its similarity in appearance to a magician in a pointed hat. The Wizard Nebula is located 7,000 lightyears from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy and is found in the constellation Cepheus. This is an active star-forming region, and the stars in NGC 7380 unleash powerful streams of charged particles known as stellar winds that have sculpted the nebula into the wizard shape we see today.

Here is an image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster.

Tech Specs: Sky-Watcher Esprit 120ED Telescope, ZWO ASI2600MC camera running at 0F, Optolong L-eXtreme 2” filter, 5 hours and 50 minutes using 5-minute exposures, Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro pier mounted, ZWO EAF and ASIAir Pro, processed in DSS and PixInsight. Image Date: August 22, 2023. Location: The Dark Side Observatory (W59), Weatherly, PA, USA (Bortle Class 4).

720 10 sec exposures. October 13, 2023. Durham NC.

After finishing my fan mod, I finally got round to getting my OIII and SII Data last night, so here's the final image

NGC7380 - Wizard Nebula

Image Details:

22x 600S - 7nm HA

19x 600S - 7nm OIII

19x 600S - 7nm SII

25 Darks and 25 Flat frames for each filter

Equipment Used:

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8" F4 Newtonian

Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED

Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C

Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro

Guide Software: PHD2

Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL

Post Processing: PixInsight

The data has been captured over the past two weeks, the weather has not been so kind recently, I blame all those people who bought new equipment :D

Target:

NGC7380 Wizard Nebula is a young cluster of stars and gas clouds in the constellation of Cepheus. It is about 7200 light years from earth and has a radius of about 100 light years. Many of the Nebulas are named for objects they appear to look like, but I'm having difficult time seeing the wizard in this one.

Gear:

Mount: ZWO AM5

Main Cam: ZWO ASI294MC Pro @ gain 121 and 14F

Guide Cam: ZWO ASI120MM Mini with ZWO 30mm f/4 scope

Lens: Sigma 150-600 @ 600

Filter: Antlia ALP-T 5nm Ha and Oiii

Acquisition:

44 5 min exposures total of 4H 40M

Location: Waller County, Texas

Bortle: 5/6

Moon: Below horizon

Processing:

• PI Stack drizzle 2x

• PI ABE SPCC

• PI Russel Croman - BXT NXT SXT

• Starless

○ PI Bill Blanshan - GH Stretch

○ PI Bill Blanshan - HOONormalizationV5

○ PI Curves

○ PS/ACR curves clarity dehaze

○ PI Unsharp Dark Structure Enhance

• Stars

○ PI HT Curves

• PI combine stars and starless

• PI EZ Star Reduction

Some more old data from my old set up, I've tried this one before using the nbrgb combination script in pixinsight, but it never really turned out how I wanted. This version I used Bill Blanshans RGB stars to NB script and got a much better result.

Frames:

Astrodon H-alpha 3nm: 45×1200″(15h)

Astrodon OIII 5nm: 30×1200″(10h)

Astrodon SII 5nm: 23×1200″(7h 40′)

Astronomik Deep-Sky Blue: 6×600″(1h)

Astronomik Deep-Sky Green: 6×600″(1h)

Astronomik Deep-Sky Red: 6×600″(1h)

Total Integration:

35h 40′

Gear used-

Camera - QSI583WSG

Telescope - William Optics GT81

Guidecam - Starlight Express Lodestar

Mount - HEQ5PRO

Captured using SGPro

Processed in Pixinsight

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The Wizard Nebula is simply a shape in a cosmic cloud surrounding open star cluster NGC 7380. Over the years it has earned its sorcerous nickname because of its similarity in appearance to a magician in a pointed hat. The Wizard Nebula is located 7,000 lightyears from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy and is found in the constellation Cepheus. This is an active star-forming region, and the stars in NGC 7380 unleash powerful streams of charged particles known as stellar winds that have sculpted the nebula into the wizard shape we see today.

NGC_7380 Wizard Nebula

Telescopio di acquisizione:GSO RC8" f/5.6 RC8"

Camera di acquisizione:QHYCCD QHY183M

Montatura:Sky-Watcher + Rowan Astronomy N-EQ6 mod toothed belt by rowan astronomy

Telescopio di guida:GSO RC8" f/8 RC8"

Camera di guida:Imaging Source DMK 21AU618

Riduttore di focale:astrophisics ccdt67

Software:KStars Ekos/INDI, StarPI , Pleiades Astrophoto, S.L. PixInsinght 1.8 RC7

Filtri:Baader Ha 7nm , Optlong OIII 6.5 nm , Baader Planetarium LRGB 1.25"

Date:18 Settembre 2020 , 19 Settembre 2020 , 20 Settembre 2020 , 21 Settembre 2020

Pose:

Baader Ha 7nm: 42x1200" -20C bin 1x1

Baader Planetarium LRGB 1.25": 36x300" -20C bin 2x2

Optlong OIII 6.5 nm: 31x600" -20C bin 2x2

Integrazione: 22.2 ore

Giorno lunare medio: 2.93 giorni

Fase lunare media: 10.87%

SQM medio: 21.29

Dettagli astrometrici di base

Astrometry.net job: 3879033

Centro AR: 22h 47' 22"

Centro DEC: +58° 7' 37"

Campionamento: 0,587 arcsec/pixel

Orientazione: 69,965 gradi

Raggio del campo: 0,399 gradi

Risoluzione: 4097x2680

Luogho: Piano Battaglia, Petralia Sottana, PALERMO, Italia

Origine dei dati: Itinerante

Descrizione

Astrophotografy team, Giosi Amante and Alessandro

First light of narrowband + RGB filters