Lonely magical wonder in the void - NGC7380 The Wizard Nebula (SHO widefield)

[Elp]

A wonderful target high near Cepheus, but also very small (probably one I'll have to do again sometime at 1000mm). I wanted to capture it in widefield and narrowband so the Samyang 135mm was put up to the task. I had actually started this at the end of August and had to wait nearly two months to get the opportunity to image it again, luckily it was a long and clear night so managed to do the remaining S2 and O3 bands during the same session... but when it came to doing the flats for the last S2 session...

 

Absolutely soaked in dew! Fearful I looked at the lens of the Samyang and sure enough it was clouded over.

So would I have to throw away a load of subs? Well in the end I didn't and the stack turned out okay-ish, if you look at the different stacks the S2 is clearly soft.

A bit of post processing magic, and this is the result. Think it's my best effort yet and another one taken down by the Samyang 135mm:

 

[MartinB]

The wide field view has certainly given Gandalf space to relax.  Excellent image

[Elp]

...A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.