Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cepheus (Cep)  ·  Contains:  NGC 7380
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Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO
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Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO

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Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO
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Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO

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These are 12 hours of the Wizard nebula, taken over 4 nights in September from my Bortle 6-7 skies in Munich. I've used a slightly modified SHO palette, trying to learn more about image processing on the way.

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  • Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
    Original
  • Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
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  • Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
    C
  • Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
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    Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge
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B

Description: Added another 3 hours of SHO to bring out more of the fainter nebulosity away from the core nebula

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C

Description: And a version with reduced stars. I used the new StarXTerminator in Affinity Photo to create a starless version and then added in a stars layer made by subtracting the starless version from the original image.

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D

Title: New processing

Description: Newly processed with a much better (I think) balance between the narrowband channels plus some additional PI tweaks to bring out more contrast (NormalizeScaleGradient, EZDecon, EZHDR, DarkStructureEnhance)

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E

Description: Reprocess in pure SHO

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Wizard nebula (NGC7380) in SHO, reglogge