NGC7380 is an open cluster of stars in Cepheus and the surrounding emission nebulosity is known as the Wizard nebula. It is about 8,500 light years away, about 25′ of arc long and shines around magnitude 7.2.
The image below was constructed from 35 subframes of 240s each. Equipment used was a Skywatcher Quattro150P scope with an aplanatic coma corrector. The scope is natively F4 but works at F3.45 with the coma corrector. Processed in PixInsight. Images taken on 25-10-25.
On 23-11-25 a further 36 images were taken, also at 240s exposures using the same equipment. The image below shows the result of stacking all 71 frames.
