NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

Total image time was 5 hr 20 min.

Exposure	32x 10min.
Gain	100
Camera	ToupTek ATR2600C [6224 x 4168]
Optics	120mm Skywatcher Esprit on a Proxisky UMi20S Strain Wave mount
Guiding	ToupTek GPM462M using Phd2 with a 400mm guide scope. Average 20 min sub GuideRMS ranged from 0.4 to 1 using 0.5 sec exposures.
Controller	Kstars on MeLe Quieter 4C
Filter	Triad Quad Ultra
Location	Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date	2025-09-30
Processing	Processed in PixInsight.
PixInsight Processing	WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script BlurXTerminator GraXpert NoiseXTerminator StarXTerminator Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch on both the stars and starless images HDRMultiScaleTransform on Starless PixelMath to recombine the images

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NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

Total image time was 120 minutes.

Exposure	8 x 15 min.
Gain	100
Camera	ToupTek ATR2600C [6224 x 4168]
Optics	120mm Skywatcher Esprit on a Proxisky UMi20S Strain Wave mount
Guiding	ToupTek GPM462M using Phd2 with a 400mm guide scope. Average 20 min sub GuideRMS ranged from 0.4 to 1 using 0.5 sec exposures.
Controller	Kstars on MeLe Quieter 4C
Filter	Triad Quad Ultra
Location	Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date	2025-09-30
Processing	Processed in PixInsight.
PixInsight Processing	WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script BlurXTerminator GraXpert NoiseXTerminator StarXTerminator Generalized Hyperbolic Stretch on both the stars and starless images HDRMultiScaleTransform on Starless PixelMath to recombine the images

Date: October 01, 2025 ]]> https://sciencedowneast.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=Nebulae/NGC-7380-Wizard-Nebula&image=NGC7380-4.jpg Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:36:02 -0300 https://sciencedowneast.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=Nebulae/NGC-7380-Wizard-Nebula&image=masterLight-BINNING_1-FILTER_NoFilter-EXPTIME_900-3.jpg NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labelled it H VIII.77. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). This reasonably large nebula is located in Cepheus. It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an O-III filter. Located 7200 light years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. Visually, the interplay of stars, gas, and dust has created a shape that appears to some like a fictional medieval sorcerer. The active star forming region spans about 100 light years, making it appear larger than the angular extent of the Moon. The Wizard Nebula can be located with a small telescope toward the constellation of the King of Aethiopia (Cepheus). Although the nebula may last only a few million years, some of the stars being formed may outlive our Sun.

Exposure	17@900 sec (4.25 hours)
ISO	800
Camera	Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504]
Optics	Skywatcher Esprit 120mm Refractor, 840 mm focal length
Filter	Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band Narrowband Filter
Guiding	Phd2 using a ZWO 224MC on an Orion 60x240mm Guide scope
Controller	Images taken using Kstars on an Odroid-N2 (Raspberry Pi clone)
Location	Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date	2020-09-20 - 2020-09-05
PixInsight Processing	WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script Dynamic Crop Automatic Background Extractor ColourCalibration (both saturation and hue) MultiscaleLinearTransform HistogramTransform CurvesTransformation LocalHistogramEquilization ColourProfile
Further tweaking for colour in Lightroom

Date: March 26, 2025 ]]> https://sciencedowneast.com/zenphoto/index.php?album=Nebulae/NGC-7380-Wizard-Nebula&image=masterLight-BINNING_1-FILTER_NoFilter-EXPTIME_900-3.jpg Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:41:47 -0300