Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380  ·  PK107-00.1  ·  Sh2-142  ·  Sh2-143
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NGC7380 and the Wizard nebula (on the full moon), John Favalessa
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NGC7380 and the Wizard nebula (on the full moon)

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NGC7380 and the Wizard nebula (on the full moon), John Favalessa
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NGC7380 and the Wizard nebula (on the full moon)

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Even though a full moon I had to do some imaging past 3 nights. I'm using a one shot color astro camera. For nights 1 and 2, I used an Optolong L-pro as I like the truer star colors it gives; night 3 I used the Optolong L-e which is a duo band H-aphla filter.

This is the Wizard nebula, located 7200 light years away. It surrounds a developing open star cluster and star factory, NGC7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years. So many stars.

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