NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula (Barry Schellenberg)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215286 · HD215588 · HD215835 · HD215907 · LBN 506 · LBN 511 · NGC 7380 · PK107-00.1 · Sh2-142 · Sh2-143

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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

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NGC 7380 - The Wizard Nebula

Other Names: SH2 142
Optics: Astro-Physics 305mm F/3.8 Riccardi-Honders Astrograph
Mount: Paramount ME using The SkyX Pro
Camera: FLI ML16200
Filters: Chroma Ha 3nm, OIII 3nm, SII 3nm
Exposure: 2680 Mins or 44 2/3 hours, [69x 1200s Ha, 29x 1200s OIII, 36x 1200s SII], Binned 1x1
Accessories: Auto guided with SXAO & Starlight Xpress Lodestar. FLI Atlas focuser using FMv5
Location: Southern, IN
Date: Taken over several nights from September 19th to November 10th, 2023
Notes: Image acquisition with TSXPro using MaxPilote automation software.

All Processing completed using PixInsight and the following steps:

Blink/WBPP/Pixinsight Gradient Correction/BlurXT/NoiseXT/StarXT/GHS/RGB Color combine - It was a toss up for me about the color method with this one. In the end I chose Channel Combination, SHO normalization, SNCR,Saturation, using Jurgen's Toolbox Selective Color Correction to tweak the final color revision
Created separate Lum layer using Ha channel/BlurXT/StarXT/NoiseXT/GHS/Mask/LHE/MLT/Add Stars back. I chose the Foraxx stars for a synthetic RGB look.
LRGB combination/Saturation/Histogram Transformation/HDR Multiscale Transformation/Crop/Annotate

Calibrated w/30 Darks, 100 Bias, 10 Flats of each filter using a flat panel. CCD temperature was -20C. Image was taken from my backyard Observatory.

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Astrometry.net job	9570159
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	22h47m15s.28
RA (top/left)	22h51m53s.44
RA (top/right)	22h42m29s.76
RA (bottom/right)	22h42m43s.69
RA (bottom/left)	22h51m54s.50

Dec (center)	+58°06′39″.2
Dec (top/left)	+58°32′02″.9
Dec (top/right)	+58°30′37″.4
Dec (bottom/right)	+57°40′37″.2
Dec (bottom/left)	+57°42′03″.0

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