NGC7380 - Wizard Nebula in HST palette

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NGC7380 - Wizard Nebula in HST palette

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Hi
I am off work on annual leave for a couple of weeks or so and it makes a change to have some clear skies to coincide with that even though the hours of darkness are a bit short. This is a narrow band image of NGC7380 in Cepheus which doesn't seem to be a very popular target for some reason. This is the first time I have imaged this in full colour, I had previously done it in Ha with the BRC-250 a couple of years ago. This can be seen on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk
It was taken over three nights and is 8x30 minutes each for Ha, OIII and SII which were then mapped to the wavelength ordered palette used by Hubble. It was taken with a FSQ106ED at f5 and Starlight Xpress SXVF H9 on a Paramount ME, auto guiding was by a Lodestar and OAG using dithering.
Processing was levels, curves and colour balancing
A full size cersion can be found at the following link http://www.pbase.com/imaging_the_heaven ... 7/original
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon

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Very nice, why are there so many red stars?
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HST tends to over saturate in colours ...
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nice photo.... i am always amazed by how you guys take such photos...
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wucheeyiun wrote:HST tends to over saturate in colours ...
Thanks Wu
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