Our version of NGC 7380 nebula with the whole AstroFleet team. The data were acquired with our setup (TS-Optics CF-APO 155mm & ASI2600MM Pro) hosted at PixelSkies, Spain.
NGC 7380 (also known as the Wizard Nebula) is a young open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. It is located in the constellation of Cepheus. It is also known as 142 in the 1959 Sharpless catalog (Sh2-142). It is extremely difficult to observe visually, usually requiring very dark skies and an OIII filter.
Located approx. 8,500 light-years away, the Wizard nebula, surrounds developing open star cluster NGC 7380. The cluster spans 20 light-years with an age estimated between 4 to 11.0 million years. At the center of the cluster lies DH Cephei, a spectroscopic binary system consisting of two massive O-type stars. This pair are the primary ionizing source for this HII region.
This picture respects the Hubble Palette version (SHO): H-Alpha mapped to green, SII mapped to red and OIII mapped to the blue channel. While the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters were used to create the nebula color.
OPTICS TS-Optics CF-APO 155mm @ F/8
CAMERA ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
MOUNT iOptron CEM70
FILTERS Ha, OIII, SII
LOCATION PixelSkies, Castilléjar, Granada, Andalucia, Spain
DATE July 2023
EXPOSURES 70.3 hours (Ha 152 x 600 sec, OIII 121 x 600 sec, SII 148 x 600 sec)
PROCESSING SOFTWARE Pixinsight, CCDstack, Photoshop
COPYRIGHTS Team AstroFleet
RA 22h 47m 01.1s
DEC +58° 07' 34.0"
SIZE 42.2 x 63.9 arcmin
ORIENTATION Up is 3.1 degrees E of N
CONSTELLATION Cepheus
DISTANCE 8,500 ly