NGC 7380 also known as the Wizard nebula is an open cluster. The emission nebula in this star-forming region is the nebulosity that we observe. This is an incredibly faint nebula and requires dark skies to visually observe.
Here you can see the area of the sky in Cepheus imaged.
Processing Info
I stacked the 40 light frames along with 50 dark and 50 flat frames in PixInsight
The following processes were performed in PixInsight:
- Dynamic Crop
- Dynamic Background Extraction
- Automatic Background Extraction
- Photometric Color Calibration
- MultiScale Linear Transform
- Histogram Transformation
- Curves Transformation (X2 with a range mask. Inverted mask for the background and then non inverted for the target)
- LRGBCombination
- Curves Transformation again (X2 with a range mask. Inverted mask for the background and then non inverted for the target)
- Morphological Transformation (Generated StarMask using default settings)
- Local Histogram Equalization (Performed with a range mask)
Acquisition Data
- Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127 Air-Spaced Triplet Apochromatic Refractor
- Camera: ASI071MC Pro
- Guide Scope: Orion ST80
- Guide Camera: ASI290MM Mini. Dithering every image at 1 pixel each time
- Mount: iOptron CEM60
- Software: NINA for image acquisition. PixInsight used for stacking and editing. Imported to Photoshop for final touchup and watermarking.
- Other Accessories: AstroZap Dew Heater, Explore Scientific 2″ Field Flattener, MoonLite CFL 2.5″ Focuser w/ High Res Stepper Motor & V3 Controller, Pegasus Astro Power Box Advance
- Filters: Optolong L-Pro 2″
- Exposure Time: 3.3 hours (40 x 300 seconds) -20°C
- Exposure Start: 23:14
- Date: September 7, 2020
- Location: Glassboro, NJ, United States
- Temperature: 64.4°F/18°C
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 6
- Astrometry.net job: 3901370
- Avg. Moon age: 19.54 Days
- Avg. Moon phase: 76.38%
- RA center: 22h 48′ 6″
- DEC center: +58° 4′ 44″
- Orientation: 18.235 degrees
- Field radius: 0.767 degrees
- Magnitude: 7.2
- Resolution: 3600 x 2548
Processing Info
I stacked the 48 light frames along with 40 dark and 50 flat frames in PixInsight
The following processes were performed in PixInsight:
- Dynamic Crop
- Automatic Background Extraction
- Photometric Color Calibration
- MultiScale Linear Transform
- Histogram Transformation
- SCNR
- LRGBCombination
- Curves Transformation (X2 with a range mask. Inverted mask for the background and then non inverted for the target)
- Morphological Transformation (Generated StarMask using default settings)
- Local Histogram Equalization (Performed with a range mask)
Once I found what I liked, I saved the files and went to Photoshop, and ran Topaz AI DeNoise. This is an amazing plugin that works like magic.
Acquisition Data
- Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127 Air-Spaced Triplet Apochromatic Refractor
- Camera: ASI071MC Pro
- Guide Scope: Orion ST80
- Guide Camera: ASI290MM Mini. Dithering every image at 1 pixel each time
- Mount: iOptron CEM60
- Software: NINA for image acquisition. PixInsight used for stacking and editing. Imported to Photoshop for final touchup and watermarking.
- Other Accessories: AstroZap Dew Heater, Explore Scientific 2″ Field Flattener, MoonLite CFL 2.5″ Focuser, High Res Stepper Motor, V3 Controller, Pegasus Astro Power Box Advance
- Filters: Optolong L-Pro 2″
- Exposure Time: 4 hours (48 x 300 seconds) -5°C
- Exposure Start: 23:14
- Date: July 27, 2020
- Location: Voorhees State Park, NJ, United States
- GPS Coordinates: Lat. 40.68187, Long. -74.89797
- Temperature: 82°F/27.78°C
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale: 4
- Astrometry.net job: 3866533
- Avg. Moon age: 7.5 Days
- Avg. Moon phase: 49.67%
- RA center: 22h 47′ 24″
- DEC center: +58° 6′ 3″
- Orientation: 269.220 degrees
- Field radius: 0.719 degrees
- Magnitude: 7.2
- Resolution: 3720 x 2330