The Lion and the Wizard: Wide Field Sh2-132 with Sh2-142 in SHO narrowband (Michele Vonci)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: 23 Cep · 27 Cep · NGC 7261 · NGC 7380 · The star δ Cep · The star ε Cep

The Lion and the Wizard: Wide Field Sh2-132 with Sh2-142 in SHO narrowband, Michele Vonci

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The Lion and the Wizard: Wide Field Sh2-132 with Sh2-142 in SHO narrowband

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Another holiday image! This time I pointed my camera toward the Cepheus constellation, imaging a portion of the sky that I only marginally explored in the past. Before last night I didn't even realise the Lion Nebula and the Wizard's were so close. The framing process with the Star Adventurer was an absolute pain; luckily I worked out a routine that seemed to be quite efficient: after a rough alignment to the target, I used APT's plate-solving functionality (Point Craft) to find where the mount was pointing, then used "Show" to send the FOV coordinates, orientation, and size to Carte du Ciel to verify how far I was from the target. Then I used a combination of RA/Dec corrections with the manual WiFi RA control from the SA phone app and the micrometric Dec adjustment to iteratively get closer and closer to the correct position, every time checking with APT/Carte du Ciel...it took me about 45 minutes, probably because the target was close to the Zenith and I got kind of lost!

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Description: Fully reprocessed image: better star layer with no colour fringe. Highlights are no longer saturated and the Wizard Nebula details are now visible.

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