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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

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NGC 7380, Sh2-142 , the "Wizard Nebula", locates in constellation Cepheus about 7000 light years from Oulu, Finland. The open star cluster has a catalog number NGC 7380. It's a relatively young cluster, about 5 million years. Nebula spans some 110 light years.





There is only 1h 20 min. H-a light for the object, due some technical problems. Ones again, I spend most of the night by fixing my ***** scope.

Seeing was better than usually, FWHM about 2,5".


I'll shoot much more H-alpha data and other NB channels, S-II and O-III later.

Image is very noisy due the short exposure time.





Technical details:





processing work flow:


Image acquisition, MaxiDL v5.07.


Stacked and calibrated in CCDStack.


Levels and curves  in PS CS3.





Telescope, Meade LX200 GPS 12" @ f5


Camera, QHY9 Guiding, SXV-AO @ 6Hz


Image Scale, 0,75 arcseconds/pixel


Exposures H-alpha 4x1200s, binned 1x1



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