Dark Cloud hangs over the Wizard (Linwood Ferguson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215588 · HD215605 · HD215771 · HD215806 · HD215835 · HD215907 · HD216248 · HD240068 · LBN 506 · LBN 511 · LDN 1200 · NGC 7380 · PK107-00.1 · Sh2-142 · Sh2-143

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This is a mid-summer project dodging rain and clouds, but I had an unexpected clear few nights in September and pronounced it finished.

This is an HSO rendering, as I decided I liked the red better than yet another Blue and Gold. The stars were replaced with shorter exposure RGB images (about an hour in each). The narrowband filters were all a bit over 12 hours of exposures. I minimized the stars a bit while swapping them, as it was a very dense star field.

This is rotated 90 degrees to how most people show it, so the wizard could be sitting upright.

This is from an SVX152T, imaged with an ASI6200MM carried on an AP1100AE. It was drizzle integrated x 2, then downsampled back to the original resolution after processing, and a bit cropped from the edges but leaving the dark nebula above, like a black cloud over the wizard (I think it is LDN1200)

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RA (center)	22h46m47s.450
RA (top/left)	22h50m28s.972
RA (top/right)	22h43m07s.907
RA (bottom/right)	22h43m14s.609
RA (bottom/left)	22h50m18s.375

Dec (center)	+58°11′07″.50
Dec (top/left)	+58°53′32″.94
Dec (top/right)	+58°53′44″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°28′16″.25
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°28′06″.31

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