Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  HD215588  ·  HD215605  ·  HD215771  ·  HD215806  ·  HD215835  ·  HD215907  ·  HD240068  ·  NGC 7380
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The Wizard Nebula, astropical
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The Wizard Nebula

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The Wizard Nebula, astropical
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The Wizard Nebula

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The Wizard Nebula around star cluster NGC 7380 in Cepheus. This time I did not miss it, ha! 

The session was interrupted three times by clouds causing field shifts but the stack result is quite ok. It is like in street traffic. You have to stop and let pedestrians cross the crosswalk before you can resume. 

Captured with SharpCap 4.1 Pro in Live Stack mode with FHWM filter and dithering with PHD2 linked in, while saving raw frames in FITS simultaneously, stacked with darks and processed in Siril and finally in Photoshop for fine tuning. Used filter is a Ø77mm Kenko Astro LPR II over the objective lens.

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The Wizard Nebula, astropical