Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380
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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5, Scott Denning
Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5
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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5

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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5, Scott Denning
Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5
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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5

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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in HSO Foraxx Palette with RGB Stars
September 4-9 2023 Borg 125 f/8 + ASI2600 mm Pro w/Chroma filters on 10micron GM1000 mount
 Ha=110x300s; O3=108x300s; S2=103x300s 
About 9 hours each Ha, O3, S2 plus a few minutes each for RGB stars 

The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) in Cepheus. This is about 27 hours of exposure through a 5-inch telescope with narrowband filters over five nights last week from brightly lit suburbia. Red is hydrogen, blue is oxygen, and yellow is sulfur.  

The Wizard is a bright cloud of fluorescent interstellar plasma surrounding a cluster of newborn stars. It lies about 8500 light years away in the direction of our Galaxy’s rim, so in the next spiral arm outward from us.  Due to the finite speed of light we see the nebula before the emergence of cities, around the time of the final collapse of the Ice Sheet that heralded the Holocene Era.

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Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380) SHO Foraxx Palette w/RGB stars; Borg 125 f/8 from Bortle 5, Scott Denning