Another object from the deep north: the Wizard Nebula

[RickS]

The Wizard Nebula, aka NGC 7380, is an open cluster and emission nebula in the northern constellation of Cepheus. This is another narrowband image from my shared scope at SRO in California.

The gear used was a Tak FSQ-106ED on a Paramount ME with a QSI683 camera. Subs were 11x1800s Ha, 20x1800s OIII, and 27x1800s SII.

Processed in PixInsight and drizzle upsampled from a native resolution of just over 2 arcsec/pixel to around 1 arcsec/pixel.

High res here: http://www.astrobin.com/123097/

Constructive criticism welcome...

Cheers,
Rick.

[Placidus]

Rick, the object is beautiful and your processing superb. Mike

[RickS]

Very kind of you, Mike!

[multiweb]

Another corker. Those stars are so tiny. Looks like a mini M42. :thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Marc!

[ozstronomer]

Your narrowband images with tiny stars are quite surreal.

Great shot Rick, well done:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Geoff. The NB stars are fairly small to start with and I do beat them up a bit :) I have some LRGB images to process and the stars there are much bigger, some with huge halos that will be a challenge to tame!

[Shiraz]

:thumbsup: wonderful crisp and colourful image Rick

[atalas]

Detail looks great...good work Rick.

[RickS]

Thanks Ray & Louie!

[SkyViking]

Great colours and the composition and level of detail is super. The full res image is a joy to pan around in. And yeah, PI Drizzle is a marvellous tool indeed :thumbsup: :)

[gregbradley]

Great image again Rick. That site is amazing for producing highest end images.

Greg.

[Stevec35]

Well you're on a roll with the northern objects Rick - a lovely result.

Cheers

Steve

[RickS]

Thanks, Rolf!



Thanks, Greg. It's a pleasure to work with data from a dark site with excellent seeing. I'm becoming spoilt :)



Ta, Steve! Several more in the pipeline. I just need the spare time to process them!

[marc4darkskies]

Another really nice job Rick! No constructive criticism required :)

Cheers, Marcus

[astroron]

Very nice Rick, not over done,nicely balanced :)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks very much, Marcus & Ron!

[Regulus]

Really beautiful picture Rick

[RickS]

Thanks, Trev!

[Ross G]

Great looking photo Rick.

Amazing detail.

Ross.

[RickS]

Thanks, Ross.