The Wizard Nebula – NGC7380
August 4, 2024
The Wizard Nebula is an open star cluster with a large emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is about 8500 light years away and about 20 light years across. I captured this data between July 16th and August 2nd, 2024 and combined a total of 26.5 hours of imaging for this photo.
Details:
Explore Scientific ED127 refractor
Hotech SCA flattener
STF-8300C camera with L-eXtreme filter
Losmandy G11 mount
146x 600sec sub-exposures (24.3hr used of 26.5hr recorded) from my Bortle ~5 backyard
Captured in NINA
Processed in an HOO palette with Siril, GraXpert, Photoshop & NXT