Date Posted: 5/15/2024
Date Taken: Five nights, from 6/8 thru 6/13/2016
Scope: Planewave CDK 12.5 f/8, 2541mm
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Guiding: SSAG, Celestron 80mm guide scope, 600mm.
Exposure: LRGB 190:95:105:95 All subs 5min. Luminance unbinned, RGB binned 2x2.

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack2; RGB combine and DDP with MaximDL. Processed with CS4.

Technically, NGC 7380 is the cluster embedded in this nebula, and the nebula itself is catalogued as Sh2-142. It is colloquially known as the Wizard Nebula. It is about 8,500 light years distant, and is estimated to be between 4 and 12 million years old.

I took lots of subs over 5 nights, with greatly varying conditions. I discarded over half of them because of clouds. The original image was reprocessed in 2024.