Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380
NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, Kyle Butler
NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula
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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, Kyle Butler
NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula
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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

Equipment

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Acquisition details

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Description

Exposure Details

40x 300s Ha (111 Gain, 10 Offset, Bin 1x1)

40x 300s SII (111 Gain, 10 Offset, Bin 1x1)

40x 300s OIII (111 Gain, 10 Offset, Bin 1x1)

50x Darks and flats for calibration

10 hours total integration time

Processing

Processed each channel individually

Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x

DynamicCrop to remove border from dithering

DynamicBackgroundExtraction on each channel

Deconvolution on each channel

MultiscaleLinearTransform noise reduction on each channel with luminance mask

Stretched each channel to non-linear using HistogramTransformationFunction

Combined into RGB image using PixelMath (Red = Ha, Green = OIII, Blue = OIII)

ColorSaturation with masking

CurvesTransformation

Noise reduction and local contrast enhancement in photoshop

Comments

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Histogram

NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula, Kyle Butler