Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380
The Wizard Nebula (RGB), Chris Sullivan
The Wizard Nebula (RGB)
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The Wizard Nebula (RGB)

The Wizard Nebula (RGB), Chris Sullivan
The Wizard Nebula (RGB)
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The Wizard Nebula (RGB)

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This is my third attempt at this target. I get the impression that this target is far more popular in SHO or bicolor than in RGB. The SHO palette definitely gives it more structure and more variation in color, but I’ve always preferred the ‘fire in the sky’ look. Although this is an RGB version, I did use narrowband data to get the fainter parts to show: I stacked all my red, Ha and SII together and also created a green + OIII stack as well as a blue + OIII stack and combined the resulting stacks into an RGB. I then pasted that on top of the RGB and set to lighten. Since the stars were dimmer, all it did was brighten the edges of the nebula where broadband had failed. I also used an early SHO draft as an overlay layer to provide some additional structure.

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