Wizard Nebula (James R Potts)

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

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I keep picking challenging targets, this has taken 4 nights of captures over the past week and a half. I combined each session using APP's RGB combine (SHO Template) and then layered the RGB data over top. I spent many an hour playing with the RGB sliders in APP and adjusting the saturation in PS. I had an image in mind that I saw on Astrobin, I was not able to duplicate that image as well as I wanted, but I think this turning out decently. I have around 13 hours of SHO data, the image I was trying to duplicate had almost 30 hours.

NGC 7380 is in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth. The star cluster within the nebula spans about 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster.

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Description: Added a starless layer and then the stars.

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Description: I decided to totally reprocess the image, using more standard SHO template. Also, I used StarXTerminator to remove the stars and then added RGB stars back at the end. I didn't get the crazy colors I had on the first image, but the stars on this image look much better.

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Description: We have had cloudy skies, so again repossessing some old images for my Astronomy book.

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RA (center)	22h47m23s.57
RA (top/left)	22h43m55s.78
RA (top/right)	22h44m49s.43
RA (bottom/right)	22h50m57s.80
RA (bottom/left)	22h49m52s.35

Dec (center)	+58°12′35″.9
Dec (top/left)	+57°39′34″.1
Dec (top/right)	+58°50′38″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°45′15″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°34′21″.7

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