The two main named features in this field are NGC 7380, the open cluster, and Sharpless 2-142, the nebulosity known as both "The Wizard" and "The Flying Horse."
If you're having trouble visualizing the wizard or horse, Tom Matheson's site
http://www.guidescope.net/nebulae/ngc7380.htm has some helpful outlines.
I had some fun with this one, creating several versions both with and without stars and rotated to feature the horse or the wizard. Sal has added so many nice features to Astrobin - be sure to click on one of the revision thumbnails at the right to bring up the slideshow gallery, making it easy to scroll through the different renditions of this field.
Eighteen hours of data was captured over sixteen nights from November to December 2021. The data used was Ha and RGB. I also captured L data but decided it added nothing to the final image so it was not incorporated.
Processing was as follows:
Calibration with SiriL and gess
Masters created from calibrated frames with WBPP in PixInsight
Gradient removal from masters with GraXpert
RGB frames combined with ChannelCombination
ImageSolver and SPCC with BackgroundNeutralization on RGB image; SCNR to remove green
Russ Croman's BlurXT, NoiseXT and StarXT
Masked stretch of starless and stars
<Repeat above with Ha master except no channel combination of course>
Combine stretched Ha and RGB masters with PixelMath
Screened stars with PixelMath ~((~starless)*(~stars))
Curves for contrast and saturation
Photoshop for the various crops, rotation and star reduction with Bodoni's PS tools
Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy this cool looking field!
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