NGC7380 - The Wizard Nebula 
Bright Nebula in Cepheus
with 10" f/3.9 Astrograph
Uploaded 12/22/20

 

            
This interesting object
            has the profile of a Medieval Wizard formed by the internal dark
            nebulas. Quite faint, it took several hours of deep filtered
            exposures to yield the outer nebulosity to this extent.

            
This image is with the
            10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph, a Baader MPCC coma corrector
            and the ZWO camera with an interference filter set.

            
Select an image size for a larger view:

1400 x 1200


Instrument:  10" f/3.9 Orion Astrograph Newtonian with Baader MPCC
Mount:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
Camera:  ZWO ASI071MC Pro Color CMOS
Guider: ZWO ASI mini  w/80mm piggyback refractor
Exposure:  2.5h = 30m RGB + 120m OIII+Ha
Location:  Payson, Arizona, Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 2 arcsec , Transparency 9/10
Outside Temperature:  35 F

Image Processing Tools: 
Maxim DL6:  Calibration, Color Conversion, aligning, stacking
PixInsight:  Saturation Curves
Photoshop CS2:  Curves, Color Correction, Gradient removal (Grad Xterminator), Cleanup

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