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Photographer:
Gary Thompson
Location of Photo:
Rock Top Observatory, Johnsonburg PA USA
Date/Time of photo:
June 25, 2025
Equipment:
c8 telescope, Eq6r pro mount, ZWO asi294 mc pro camera
Description:
The Wizard Nebula ( NGC 7380) is a young star cluster nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It is aprox. 7200 light years from earth. It is said to give the appearance of a medieval wizard. It is aprox. 110 light years across and contains stars that formed in the last 5 million years. I used a celestron 8" telescope and a starizona reducer/ flattner on a skywatcher EQ6R pro mount with a narrow band filter on a ZWO asi294 mc pro camera. I took 3.5 hours of 6 minute images and used deep sky stacker and Siril to process the final image.
