NGC7380 Wizard Nebula (Michael Broyles)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: LBN 506 · LBN 511 · NGC 7380 · Sh2-142

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NGC7380 Wizard Nebula

Processing this image of the Wizard Nebula(NGC7380) was actually quite challenging. Contributing to these challenges were the capture from my backyard in Bortle 7 skies over two separate nights, just a little over 3 hours on signal capture with 120s exposures, faint nebulosity surrounding the nebula, and learning new processing techniques to overcome these challenges.

New processing techniques applied included heavy masking to protect faint areas while applying TGVDenoise and Multiscale Median Transform for noise reduction in both linear and non-linear stages and star reduction using Morphological Transform to so that the nebula was not obscured by stars.

In the end, I'm fairly pleases with the first attempt results at capturing this image but feel that a much better image could be capture with my current setup from a dark site. A somewhat recurring theme seems to be more signal capture and darker skies but learning new processing techniques is helping to negate some of the backyard captures. May have also think about getting a good filter to overcome backyard capture issues.

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Description: New post-processing techniques are an improvement over the original, however I will definitely be revisiting the Wizard in the future because this image appears to be somewhat lacking in my opinion.

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RA (center)	22h47m16s.370
RA (top/left)	22h51m02s.553
RA (top/right)	22h43m30s.280
RA (bottom/right)	22h43m33s.270
RA (bottom/left)	22h50m57s.783

Dec (center)	+58°07′59″.26
Dec (top/left)	+58°27′27″.42
Dec (top/right)	+58°27′33″.57
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°48′05″.99
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°47′58″.87

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