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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, lefty7283
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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, lefty7283
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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

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Description

This was captured over the course of a week, and my dumb ass rotated the OTA in its rings during that time. Because of this my stars have 8 diffraction spikes instead of 4. Captured on September 1st and 7th, 2018 from a Bortle 7 Zone.



**Equipment:**

* TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

* Orion Sirius EQ-G

* Canon Rebel T3i (Astro modified)

* Baader MPCC Mark III

* StarGuy 2" CLS-CCD Filter



* Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

* ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

**Acquisition:** 4 hours 15 minutes

* Lights- 85x180" at ISO 800

* Darks- 21

* Flats- 0

* Bias- 250

**Capture Software:**

* EQMod mount control. Captured using [N.I.N.A.](https://bitbucket.org/Isbeorn/nina/overview) and PHD2 for guiding and dithering

**PixInsight Processing:**

* BatchPreprocessing

* ImageIntegration

* DynamicCrop

* CanonBandingReduction

* DynamicBackgroundExtraction

* PhotometricColorCalibration

* SCNR

* TVGDenoise

* MultiscaleMedianTransform

* ArcsinhStretch

* HistogramTransformation

* LRGbCombination (Chrominance noise reduction)

* [Curve](https://i.imgur.com/ZWNqR87.jpg)Transformations

* SCNR

* DarkStructureEnhance

* Annoatation

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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, lefty7283

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