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

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.

The cluster spans ~20 light-years at a distance of 8,500 light-years.

This object has been captured using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ. Data acquired by Terry Hancock from Grand Mesa Observatory.

Hubble Palette version (SHO): H-Alpha mapped to green, SII mapped to red and OIII mapped to the blue channel. while the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters were used create the nebula color. Then I added the natural star colors using RGB filters and Starnet process.

RA: 22h 47m 21.0s

DEC: +58° 07' 54"

Location: Cepheus

Distance: 8.5 kly

Magnitude: 7.2

Acquisition October 2020

Total acquisition time of 11.6 hours.

Technical Details

Data acquisition: Terry HANCOCK

Processing: Nicolas ROLLAND

Location: The Grand Mesa Observatory, Whitewater, CO

R 13 x 300 sec

G 12 x 300 sec

B 8 x 300 sec

Ha 17 x 600 sec

OIII 17 x 600 sec

SII 19 x 600 sec

Optics: Takahashi 130 FSQ @ F5

Mount: Paramount ME

CCD: QHY600M CMOS

Pre Processing: CCDstack & Pixinsight

Post Processing: Photoshop CC

Photographed from the Alexander Valley, Sonoma County, California - Oct 2021

Can you see 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. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. The NGC 7380 complex is located at a distance of approximately 9 million light-years from the Sun. The cluster spans ~20 light-years (6 pc) with an elongated shape and an extended tail. Age estimates range from 4 to 11.9 million years.

Tech Stuff

OBJECT: NGC 7380 Wizard Nebula

Scope: SVX130T 935mm f/7 angle:100.03 22h-48m-19s x 58-14-41

Camera: ASI2600MC

Mount: EQ6R

Filters: L-Extreme

Moon Phase: 4% waning

Lights: 81 @ 180” 100 gain, -10deg (approx 4 hrs)

Darks: 30 @ 180”

Flats: 20 @ 4.2”

Dark Flats: 20 @ 4.2”

Notes: Clear, calm, 50’s temp, 80’s-90’s RH - fighting dew tonight.

Ha - 16 hours

OIII - 35 hours

SII - 29 hours

Total 80 hours

Hardware - Planewave 12.5" CDK, PME, QSI 583 CCD, Lodestar guider CCD, Astrodon LRGB filters.

Acquisition software - Maxim DL, TSX, PWI focusing.

Processing software - Pixinsight 1.8

This is another attempt at processing the Wizard Nebula (original www.flickr.com/photos/mikejolley/51514299823). I prefer the colours in this one :)

I used a mix of Foraxx and SHO pallette, and made some other adjustments in Pixinsight. In photoshop, I used starxterminator and enhanced the nebulosity separately.

The Wizard Nebula, or NGC 7380, in the Cepheus constellation taken over 3 nights, this is a stack of 300s exposures at gain 100: 25xHa, 15xSii, 30xOiii.

Equipment:

- SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED and Flattener

- ASI 2600 MM

- HEQ5-Pro

- Baader 7.5nm Filters

- Starsense + Polemaster

- ASI Mini Off Axis Guider

- Captured using Astrophotography Tool.

The Wizard Nebula, or NGC 7380, in the Cepheus constelation.

Taken over 3 nights, this is a stack of 300s exposures at gain 100: 25xHa, 15xSii, 30xOiii. Combined into SHO and Foraxx Palletes and then blended, all in Pixinsight.

Equipment:

- SkyWatcher Esprit 100ED and Flattener

- ASI 2600 MM

- HEQ5-Pro

- Baader 7.5nm Filters

- Starsense + Polemaster

- ASI Mini Off Axis Guider

Captured using Astrophotography Tool.

A difficult target at my focal length. 5 hours data, 2 minutes subs ISO1600. Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED and modified Canon DSLR

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.

Whilst I think target looks so much better in Hubble Palette (Which I am working on) here's my LRGB+HA Version

Image Details:

18x300S Luminance

15x300S Red

15x300S Green

15x300S Blue

22x600S HA (As Overlay in Red Channel)

Equipment Used:

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

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

Flattener: Sky-Watcher Aplanatic Coma Corrector

Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED

Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm EFW

Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro

Stacking and Combining: Maxim-DL

Post Processing: Photoshop

RGB images (stack of 38 4 min exposures) taken 2018-07-16 and H-alpha images (stack of 12 4 min exposures) taken 2021-09-05

I had been meaning to come back to this nebula once I had narrowband filters, but I didn't get a chance last summer/fall. Equipment was behaving a bit strangely at first this weekend, but I managed 12 good subframes. I combined the Hα channel with the RGB data to get this result. Even though I shot the RGB from Bortle 2 or 3 skies, the 656 nm data from my light polluted backyard was needed to make this structure really pop. It also helped reduce the influence of the stars in this very busy field.

Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 925 with HyperStar

Cameras: Atik 314L+ color for RGB; Atik 414-EX mono for hydrogen-alpha

H-alpha filter was also from Atik

Software: preprocessing in Nebulosity; channel combination and most processing in PixInsight; small touch ups in Photoshop

North is roughly at the top in this 41' by 53' image.

I've got too many things in progress!

#Sh2-171 #wizardnebula #ngc7380

#astrophotography #astrobackyard #losmandy #losmandygm8 #zwo #asi533mcpro #optolong #l-enhance #womenpower

Technical Info:

Optics: SGO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian @ 610mm FL

Explore Scientific 2" HR Coma Corrector

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Filter: 2" Optolong L-Enhance

Mount: Losmandy GM8

Guiding: QHY Mini Guide Scope + PHD2 Software

Acquisition: Sequence Generator Pro

Exposure: Light (Gain 200) - 25 subs @ 240 Seconds (100 Minutes)

Calibration: 50 Bias, 30 Darks, 50 Flats

​Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, Adobe Photoshop, Topaz Denoise AI, Astronomy Action Set plug in for PS, Astro Flat Pro plug in for PS

Known as NGC 7380, the Wizard Nebula is a narrowband object in Cepheus. This was captured with a small refractor, the Askar 71F and a crop sensor camera, the ToupTek 2600C. This consists of 24 exposures of 300 seconds each stacked and processed in PixInsight.

The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in the constellation Cepheus is about 7000 lightyears away. This is an image of the light emission of the hydrogen gas contained in the nebula.

24 x 300s exposure with Baader 36 mm ha-filter at gain 139, camera ASI1600mmpro, TS 130/910 mm refraktor.

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.

Narrowband Ha/SII/OIII Hubble palette image of this open cluster with nebulosity in Cepheus.

Eight hours total exposure (7x1200s Ha, 7x1200 SII, 10x1200 OIII)

Telescope: Esprit 100 550mm

Camera: Atik 460

Mount: AZEQ6

Filters: Baader

I could have stretched this further, but for the hours and the subject I think this is about right. If I get more hours I'll revisit.

Better resolution

Our version of NGC 7380 nebula with the whole AstroFleet team. The data were acquired with our setup (TS-Optics CF-APO 155mm & ASI2600MM Pro) hosted at PixelSkies, Spain.

NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is a young open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. It is located in the constellation of Cepheus. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an OIII filter.

Located approx. 8,500 light-years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. The cluster spans 20 light-years with an age estimated between 4 to 11.0 million years. At the center of the cluster lies DH Cephei, a spectroscopic binary system consisting of two massive O-type stars. This pair are the primary ionizing source for this HII region.

This picture respects the Hubble Palette version (SHO): H-Alpha mapped to green, SII mapped to red and OIII mapped to the blue channel. While the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters were used to create the nebula color.

RA 22h 47m 01.1s

DEC +58° 07' 34.0"

ORIENTATION Up is 3.1 degrees E of N

CONSTELLATION Cepheus

DISTANCE 8,500 ly

Captured July 2023

FOV 42.2 x 63.9 arcmin

Total integration time of 70.3 hours.

Technical Details

Data acquisition & processing: AstroFleet team

Location: PixelSkies, Castilléjar, Granada, Andalucia, SPAIN

Ha: 152*600s

OIII: 121*600s

SII: 148*600s

Optics: TS-Optics CF-APO 155mm @ F/8

Mount: iOptron CEM70

CMOS: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/3.5

QHYCCD Minicam8

Hubble Palette

15 x 120sec. subs each filter (1.5hrs. total)

Processed with Astro Pixel Processor, NoiseXTerminator and Affinity Photo

The Open Cluster, NGC 7380 and its surrounding Emission Nebula, Sh2--142, is a young (12 million years) star-forming region in the Milky Way. Its distance is approximately 8,400 light years.

Photo using a ZWO S50 by stacking 10-second images for 85 minutes from my suburban backyard.

My first shot with my new ZWO 183 MM Pro with Ha Filter and O3 Filter.

4h of total integration over 2 nights. Edited with SIRIL and Photoshop.

I set the telescope on this open cluster and emission nebula, shooting 4 min guided exposures, then took a nap. After getting rid of a few frames with issues, I had 38 frames to stack. This was my first time trying drizzle frames as part of the processing in PixInsight. I also did all the preprocessing in PI as well. Yay! I'm learning!

I see why most astronomers shoot this with an H-alpha filter; the star field is so rich that if you shoot full color, it's going to be dominated by stars. I've seen much better versions of this from other astrophotographers who went heavy (or exclusively) with 656 nm narrow band. If I get a good monochrome CCD camera, I'll have to revisit this (or just use that data to help bring out the ionized hydrogen better).

38 4 min subframes shot with a Celestron Edge HD 9.25" at f/2.3 with Hyperstar and an Atik 314L+ color CCD camera. Preprocessing, stacking, and initial processing in PixInsight. Some small touch ups in PS CS 5.1.

Image center (J2000) is at:

RA 22h 47m 18s

DEC +58° 2' 53"

Image spans 38' by 46'.

NGC7380 Wizard Nebula. Stars removed with Starnet++

Date: August 29, 2023

Bortle Class 5 backyard, SF Bay Area (East Bay)

Capture: 10 x 600s Ha, 8 x 900s Oiii and 8 x 900s Sii, Dithered

Telescope: Askar 107PHQ

Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro

ZWO EFW 7x36mm

Astronomik 6nm Narrowband Filters, 36mm

Guide Camera: ZWO ASI290MM mini

ZWO OAG-L

Mount: iOptron GEM45

Calibrated with Darks, Flats and Dark Flats

ZWO ASIAIR Plus Control and Capture

Processed with DSS and Photoshop CC

The Wizard Nebula NGC-7380 is located in the constellation of Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. This massive stellar nursery or star formation region spans an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon or 2.5 degrees of sky. I captured this image on the nights August 28Th & August 31st of 2018 from my backyard observatory in Dayton, Ohio. I used my 6 inch Celestron Newtonian Scope, Baader Coma corrector, & ZWO 174MM Cmos Camera/ZWO Wheel. I captured the wavelengths of Hydrogen Alpha, Oxygen III, and Sulfur II , all at 7nm for 95 minutes each for a total of 4 hours & 45 minutes of exposure time.

2h30m Total (Ha, SII, OIII). Takahashi FSQ106ED

QSI683ws Mono CCD

Astronomik Ha (6nm), SII, OIII filters

QHY5-II Guide Camera

PHD2, Sequence Generator Pro, CCDStack, Photoshop CS6

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 variable star Delta Cephei (at right), also a double star just barely resolved here, and the prototypical Cepheid variable star, and with it in the field at left, the star cluster and emission nebula, NGC 7380, aka the Wizard Nebula. All in Cepheus. This is a stack of 8 x 6 minute exposures with the stock Canon 6D at ISO 800, and TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/5.5 with the Hotech field flattener, with no focal reduction. Taken from New Mexico, Nov 11, 2014.

Integrated flux nebulae are visible in the field, and Sivan 2 shows vast red ring and green haze in the south part of the constellation Cassiopeia.

Here is a frame of integrated nebulae around Messier 31 with Apo-Elmarit-R 180mmF2.8.

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6754827529/

Here is a frame of Sivan 2 with FSQ-106ED and reducer QE 0.73x at f/3.6

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6224453705/

C/2014 E2 Jacques was drifting near the right upper corner.

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 6 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 3 x 4 min, and 3 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

The first exposure started at 10:05:48 August 29, 2014UTC.

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Salut à tous,

Encore dans la région de Céphée, je vise l'objet NGC7380... la nébuleuse du sorcier !

Située à environ 7000 années lumière de nous, cette nébuleuse en émission ressemble à un lanceur de sorts.

Avec ce champs large et ce cadrage, le grand sorcier semble même lancer une boule de feu.

On peut y voir également pas mal de matières denses qui contrastent avec les nuages riches d'hydrogène.

Information prise de vue :

Lieu / date : Tinlot (Belgique) - 06/10/2022

Constellation : Céphée

Acquisition : 06h04 (182 x 120 sec) + DOF

Monture : Skywatcher EQ6R pro

Tube optique : Celestron RASA 8

Caméra : ZWO Asi2600MC

Filtre : Idas NBZ

Accessoires : ZWO EAF - ZWO ASIAIR PRO

Traitement : Siril - Pixinsight - Lightroom

Haute définition et astrométrie : www.astrobin.com/hhtd8h/

Bon ciel !

Cepheus Flare Complex is clouds in the left upper quarter of the frame between Cepheus and Polaris near the left upper corner.

We can see green trace of drifting comet C/2014 E2 Jacques near the left edge. Here is an image of the comet taken just after this.

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/15178257005/

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 6 times x 30 minutes, 5 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 6 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

- 55x2min unguided for the colour (taken Oct)

- 28x10min Ha guided

- Canon 450D (modded)

- Skywatcher 150PDS

- Vixen GP

- Guiding: Orion mini finder scope + SPC900 (unmodded)

Adding to my previous picture 4 hours and 20 minutes of exposure with an SII filter made a big difference! In addition the north is now properly placed upward so the Wizard can display its magic's.

Total exposure 9h20'. 2h20 in Ha; 2h40 in OIII and 4h20 in SII. C11-HD telescope mounted on a G11. STL 11km camera cooled at -25°C.

Urban site.

The Wizard Nebula (NGC7380, Sh 2-142)

First attempt in SHO.

Shooting Location :

* 51° N 3° E

* bortle class 6 backyard

Object Information

* Type : Open Star Cluster with Emission Nebula

* Magnitude : 7,2

* Location (J2000.0): RA 22h 47m 00s / DEC +58° 06' 00"

* Approximate distance : 2.200 parsecs / 7.200 lightyears

Hardware

* Mount : Celestron CGX

* Imaging Scope : Sky-Watcher Explorer 150PDS

* Imaging Camera : ZWO ASI 183MM

* Filter Wheel : ZWO EFW 7*36mm + Baader Ha 7nm, Baader OIII 8.5nm & Baader SII 8.5nm

* Coma Corrector : Baader MPCC III

* Guide Scope : Sky-Watcher StarTravel 80

* Guide Camera : ZWO ASI 120MM

Exposures

* Single Exposure Length : 300sec

* Sensor Temperature : -20°C

* Gain : 111

* Offset : 10

* Light Frames :

> Baader Ha : 20x

> Baader OIII : 17x

> Baader S2 : 19x

* Flat Frames :

> Baader Ha : 25x

> Baader OIII : 25x

> Baader S2 : 25x

* Dark Frames : 30x

* Bias Frames : 100x

* Total Integration Time : 4h40m

* Capture Dates : 2018-07-14 & 2018-07-15

Capture Software

* Sequence Generator Pro

* PHD2 Guiding

Processing Software

* Astro Pixel Processor 1.061

* Adobe Photoshop

That's a bit better, had to drop some OIII subs as the stars were not perfect. I will get some more data soon I think.

8 x Ha @ 900s (03/01/2015)

3 x OIII @ 900s (26/09/2015)

4 x SII @ 1200s (26/09/2015)

Flats and Bias

4.1 hours integration

SW Equinox 80 APO and Flattener

EQ5 Pro Synscan GOTO.

Guiding: SW 9x 50 finder guider and QHY5.

Atik 314L+ mono

Baader HA 7nm, OIII 8.5nm

Using: Artemis capture, PHD, DSS, and Photoshop CC.

Thanks for looking.

Vicky N

Leicester

Some more old data. The ha data on this goes back to 2015, I started capturing the Pelican and North America Nebula as a 12 panel mosaic in may 2015, I finished capturing the sulphur data last year, I will, hopefully, get to finally process it at some point.

Astrodon 3nm Ha filter.

5hrs exposure time in 20min subs.

Astrobin Technical card astrob.in/8rewsw/C/

My Astrobin Gallery www.astrobin.com/users/tonymacc/

www.instagram.com/p/CaVZHIYq_Ch/

www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1146970976120806&set=a.8...

Gear used-

Camera - QSI583WSG

Telescope - William Optics GT81

Guidecam - Starlight Express Lodestar

Mount - HEQ5PRO

Captured using SGPro

Processed in Pixinsight.

The emission nebula NGC 7380, aka the Wizard Nebula (at left) with its associated star cluster also known as NGC 7380. Delta Cephei, a famous double and variable star, is at right, barely resolved here. Delta Cep is the prototype Cepheid variable star, a prime tool for measuring cosmic distances.

This is a stack of 10 x 6 minute exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800 through the TMB 92mm apo refractor at f/4.4 with the Borg. 0.85x field flattener/reducer. Taken from New Mexico, Nov 18, 2014.

C/2014 E2 Jacques was drifting near the upper edge.

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 4 times x 30 minutes, 3 x 15 min, 3 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

The first exposure started at 11:39:54 August 24, 2014UTC.

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Integrated flux nebulae are visible in the field, and Sivan 2 shows vast red ring and green haze in the south part of the constellation Cassiopeia.

Here is a frame of integrated nebulae around Messier 31 with Apo-Elmarit-R 180mmF2.8.

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6754827529/

Here is a frame of Sivan 2 with FSQ-106ED and reducer QE 0.73x at f/3.6

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6224453705/

C/2014 E2 Jacques was drifting near the upper edge. Zodiacal light is visible near the left lower corner.

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 4 times x 30 minutes, 3 x 15 min, 3 x 4 min, and 4 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

The first exposure started at 11:39:54 August 24, 2014UTC.

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Integrated flux nebulae are visible in the field, and Sivan 2 shows vast red ring and green haze in the south part of the constellation Cassiopeia.

Here is a frame of integrated nebulae around Messier 31 with Apo-Elmarit-R 180mmF2.8.

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6754827529/

Here is a frame of Sivan 2 with FSQ-106ED and reducer QE 0.73x at f/3.6

www.flickr.com/photos/hiroc/6224453705/

C/2014 E2 Jacques was drifting near the right upper corner.

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 6 times x 30 minutes, 4 x 15 min, 3 x 4 min, and 3 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

The first exposure started at 10:05:48 August 29, 2014UTC.

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

More info in my blog: www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2014/02/all-my-images-from-s...

This is a small collection of my images, shot at Spring 2014. There are not many images and new ones aren't coming anytime soon, since my main telescope system has toasted beyond any repair. I'm having a hard time trying to figure out, how to restore my observatory to an imaging condition with a very limited assets.

I managed to get some really rare images though. I think, that both supernova remnant images, Sharpless 221 and G65.3+5.7 SNR, are the first three band color images, showing the whole remnant, in the world! If someone is able to find other images, I'm very interested to hear about it. Both SNR images are kind of long projects. Exposure time for the G65.3+5.7 SNR 38 hours and for the Sharpless 221 was 33 hours, with the planetary nebula Sharpless 216, 58 hours. (Image at the bottom of the poster.)

Main work for the season was the large, ten panels mosaic of the constellation Cepheus. Every pane is shot three times to have a narrow band color composition. Total exposure time was 92 hours, it includes shots from six different years.

All images from the Spring season -14 are shot with the Canon EF200mm f1.8 camera lens (full open), QHY9 a cooled astronomical camera and the Baader narrowband filters, H-a, S-II and O-III.

More info and a large image in my blog: www.astroanarchy.blogspot.fi/2014/01/a-zoom-in-series-of-...

Now and then I have published some zoom in series of various objects imaged by me.

The purpose is to show the apparent scale in the sky. Beside that, this series shows nicely the fractal nature of our universe. Series are possible to make, since I have shot many objects with various focal lengths.

Like this one is shot with 200mm, 300mm and ~2000mm focal lengths

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

Details

M: Avalon Linear Fast reverse

T: Takahashi FSQ85 0.73x

C: Atik 460EXM with 3nm Ha filters

24x1800s with flats and bias

Total integration time - 12 hours

Wizard Nebula in Ha ... (3 hrs total, 20 min subs) ... if its clear again soon I plan on doing full narrowband on this

Camera: Atik 314L+

Filter: Astronomik Ha 12nm

Scope: Orion EON80ED

Subs: 9x1200s

Nebulosa diffusa a emissione con ammasso aperto - somma di 18 scatti da 8 minuti a 800 ISO. Strumenti: Canon Eos 350D mod.; Schmidt-Newton Meade 203, focale 812, 7 dark, 25 flat. Località: Mastro di mercato saraceno(Fc). Data: 11/11/2009

The Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in Hydrogen alpha emission line, 9x 10 minute exposures.

Imaged from my balcony with Celestron C8 with reducer and SXVR-H18 in 2x2 binned mode.

Cepheus Flare Complex is in the left upper quarter of the frame. We can see green trace of drifting comet C/2014 E2 Jacques near the left edge.

equipment: Sigma 35mmF1.4 DG HSM "Art" and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200 Temma 2 Jr, autoguided with Takahashi FSQ-106ED, hiro-design off-axis guider, SX Lodestar, and PHD Guiding

exposure: 6 times x 30 minutes, 5 x 15 min, 4 x 4 min, and 6 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/4.0

site: 11,000 feet above sea level near Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii

Another effort with tricolor NB.

Despite trying to"beat the Moon" early in the evening it was in the way soon enough.

Played with -30C binned imaging,etc etc.

Becoming increasingly sure binning just is not worth it.....

its like instant oatmeal...your sorry you did it after..

For whatever reason (? poor seeing) not a lot of progress was made here.Beetercolor range mostly.

Possibly (probably) better done at 500mm fl.

Had to accept a lot of noise here and forgo any sharpening etc...

No OIII or SII flats...

(and a 2/3channel left bottom corner........)

In deep sky photographs the Wizard Nebula (Sh 2-142) along with its embedded star cluster NGC 7380 makes for an impressive picture. Through a small refractor the brighter stars of NGC 7380 easily mark the location of the nebula, but visually seeing the nebula is not guaranteed. In fact, I was expecting defeat the night of the drawing. Some sources claimed that even with a nebula filter you need at least a 10-inch telescope to see the Wizard Nebula. I was pleasantly surprised when I was able to detect the northern section of the nebula with my 4.3-inch refractor using an OIII nebula filter. It just goes to show that sometimes it is worth pushing your scope and eyes to their limits.

The Wizard Nebula glows mostly due to the magnitude 8.6 eclipsing binary star DH Cepheii. The Wizard Nebula got its name from the shape of the extended nebula as seen in photographs, however, I have never been able to make the wizard out regardless of how long I stare at the photographs. In addition, Stephen O’Meara in his book “Hidden Treasures” refers to the Open Cluster NGC 7380 as “Harry Potter and the Golden Snitch”. This too remains beyond my imagination.

Regardless of your imagination abilities, this cluster/nebula combination is worth searching out visually. Even if you fail to see the nebula proper the surrounding star field is intense with starlight and loaded with double stars. Don’t let the astrophotographers alone claim this section of space.

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The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380). While the weather is cloudy and rainy, I thought I'd re-process this image from July of this year. Despite it having 7 hours and 15 minutes of exposure (4 hours and 45 minutes added to 2 hours and 30 minutes from the previous year), the result was still disappointing. This time I separated the stars from the background and processed each separately before recombining them and now this made a big difference because I could bring out as much as possible of the nebula without bloating the stars while keeping the noise under control. It's still not perfect as I'm still experimenting with this technique but the result is much more satisfying.

NGC 7380 is an open cluster, 7200 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. 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. Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

Information from:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7380

087 x 300 second exposures at Unity Gain (139) cooled to -20°C

080 x dark frames

100 x flat frames

100 x bias frames (subtracted from flat frames)

Binning 1x1

Total integration time = 7 hours and 15 minutes

Captured with APT

Guided with PHD2

Processed in Nebulosity, Lightroom and Photoshop

Equipment:

Telescope: Sky-Watcher Explorer-150PDS

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Guide Scope: Orion 50mm Mini

Guiding Camera: ZWO ASI120MC

Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI1600MC Pro

Baader Mark-III MPCC Coma Corrector

Light pollution filter

Despite the rubbish weather of late, I actually had a few hours of #ClearSkies on Wednesday. I managed to get 50 minutes of Ha and 50 minutes of OIII on the #WizardNebula #NGC7380 Here is a quick process. It needs a lot more data. #Salford #Manchester #astronomy #Astrophotography

Telescopi o obiettivi di acquisizione: SkyWatcher ED 80//600

Camere di acquisizione: Canon 1100D

Montature: SkyWatcher NEQ6 Pro

Telescopi o obiettivi di guida: SkyWatcher 70/500

Camere di guida: Skywatcher Synguider 2

Riduttori di focale: SkyWatcher Reducer 0.85

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

Risoluzione: 3200x2110

Date: 18 agosto 2015

Pose: 25x420" ISO800

Integrazione: 2.9 ore

Dark: ~19

Flat: ~31

Bias: ~41

Rielaborazione del 25/08/2015

www.astrobin.com/203952/B/

NGC 7380 is a young open cluster of stars in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cepheus. The NGC 7380 complex is located at a distance of approximately 8.5 kilolight-years from the Sun, in the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way.