Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380
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Wizard in Simple RGB, Ron Crouch
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Wizard in Simple RGB, Ron Crouch
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As a part of a much longer SHO project on NGC7380 aka the Wizard Nebula in Cepheus I got 4 hours of simple RGB with 120s subs (too long) to use later in the SHO. I had no idea how star rich this region was as with simple screen stretch the entire frame was dominated totally by stars. After a masked stretch  removed the stars with StarExterminator and slightly brightened the nebula then put stars back and toned them down slightly. I really need to find a means to control camera gain as a part of unattended image sequences.  Almost certainly I will come up with a crazy nebula color for the starless SHO in near future but before that I thought to enjoy the simple RGB result.

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Wizard in Simple RGB, Ron Crouch