Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380

[Dustspeakers]

14, 20, 21 Sept 2020 – The Wizard Nebula, NGC 7380

The Wizard Nebula (a.k.a. SH2-142) is located just 8000 light years away in the constellation of Cepheus. The nebulosity surrounds the open star cluster NGC 7380 and the active star forming region is about 100 light years across.

From my UK bortle 5 back garden – CGX, C925 0x7 reducer, EFW, ASI1600MM, ASI120MM guider.

 ·      Ha  – 22 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2

·      OIII – 25 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2

·      SII  – 30 x 300s at 139 gain bin 2x2

 Total integration time ~6.5 hrs

 Processed in DSS, StarTools and Gimp in SHO -> RGB

[MarkAR]

Looks like you've got some good detail.

I think you might need to crop the left border, I see a blue band.

[Dustspeakers]

Thanks Mark, you are right. Weirdly I can only just make this out on my original now you've pointed it out. Also there's a reddish background tint which is also not (as) apparent on the original. Uploaded again without the blue band, hopefully