NGC 7380 Open Cluster with surrounding nebulosity Sh2-142 (Wizard Nebula) - Guided (Flemming Kristensen)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215806 · HD215835 · LBN 511 · NGC 7380 · Sh2-142

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NGC 7380 Open Cluster with surrounding nebulosity Sh2-142 (Wizard Nebula) - Guided

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NGC 7380 Open Cluster with surrounding nebulosity Sh2-142 (Wizard Nebula) - Guided

My first attempt at autoguiding my new rig. The performance was a bit underwhelming, but perhaps that is what is to be expected. Balance wasn't too good, as I may have overloaded my scope a bit with two hefty Losmandy bars, a guide scope, an Eagle3 computer, a dew shield, a Telrad finder on one side and a couple of hundred grams of iron on the other trying to balance it out. Long moment arms with impromptu counterweights all the way out. A work in progress. This shot was mostly done as a way to test the mount and the guiding, so calibration was done as an afterthought with what I could find from other projects, Darks half the exposure as the lights, flats from a previous night and so on.

Still, as a newbie, I was so pleased that there was some signal buried in the murky depths of the files that I decided to process them as best I could and post the result even though I obviously need much more acquisition time than the measly 48 minutes I managed to get last night. Preferably on a night with a less full moon.

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RA (center)	22h47m19s.505
RA (top/left)	22h49m25s.641
RA (top/right)	22h45m05s.447
RA (bottom/right)	22h45m14s.932
RA (bottom/left)	22h49m32s.684

Dec (center)	+58°07′58″.31
Dec (top/left)	+58°20′05″.16
Dec (top/right)	+58°18′30″.42
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°55′45″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°57′21″.53

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