Wizard Nebula – Astro La Vista Observatory

Wizard Nebula – New Color Palette

WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (COLOR)

It has been difficult to find enough imaging time between the rainy weather days to complete this project. Of course, you never are really finished since you can always add more images to the stack. This image was composed by stacking 15 thirty minute H-Alpha images, 4 sixty minute H-Alpha images, and 8 thirty minuteContinue reading “WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (COLOR)”

WIZARD NEBULA NGC 7380 (GUIDED)

Happy Halloween! In this version of the Wizard Nebula I increased the sub-exposures from 15 minutes to 30 minutes which required guiding. I then stacked 11 images. This increased the resolution substantially. The wizard nebula is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that lies about 8000 light-years from us. In a telescope you wouldContinue reading “WIZARD NEBULA NGC 7380 (GUIDED)”

WIZARD NEBULA – NGC 7380 (unguided)

This is another Halloween treat. Can you see the Wizard in this image of the Wizard Nebula? The total exposure time was about 6 hours through an H-Alpha filter. I will be working on a color version.