Wizard Nebula - NGC 7380 (Nathan Barnard)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215588 · HD215835 · HD215907 · LBN 506 · LBN 511 · NGC 7380 · PK107-00.1 · Sh2-142

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Wizard Nebula - NGC 7380

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Wizard Nebula - NGC 7380

This was a quick project I did over two nights. I recently moved into a new apartment and just found out the hard way that the sprinkler systems run at night from 9:00pm to 12:30am, precisely where my astronomy gear is set up. After a moment of sheer panic, a near fight-or-flight response, and experiencing the five stages of grief all within a matter of seconds, I managed to move the 90lbs that is my imaging rig to safety without a drop of water on anything. Given the circumstances, I went to Stellarium and found that the Wizard Nebula was a decent target to capture between my newly imposed schedule of 1:00am to 4:45am. I found this to be a great opportunity to try my hand at a bi-color narrowband image for the first time. Nonetheless, astrophotography is always a pleasure even though it comes with a multitude of challenges/frustrations that us lunatics seem to embrace. I've still got a long way to go, but I am quite happy with this result especially only having roughly 5 1/2 hours of integration time. Let me know what you think!

Note: The blue stars here were very stubborn and resisted every method I had to make them white. SCNR, star masks, curves transformations, etc. all helped but were not a perfect solution. If you have any advice please feel free to leave a comment. Thanks!

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RA (center)	22h47m15s.434
RA (top/left)	22h48m12s.474
RA (top/right)	22h43m18s.713
RA (bottom/right)	22h46m20s.870
RA (bottom/left)	22h51m13s.678

Dec (center)	+58°04′08″.30
Dec (top/left)	+58°35′16″.33
Dec (top/right)	+57°57′27″.12
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°32′55″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°10′18″.30

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