The Wizard - NGC7380 (GiffS)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: HD215588 · HD215835 · HD215907 · LBN 506 · LBN 511 · NGC 7380 · PK107-00.1 · Sh2-142

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The Wizard is one of my favorites. Although I see nothing of the Wizard I think it's one of the more dramatic nebulae. I shot this before with the wide field set up and once again, I am very happy with the increased focal length and the overall performance of this relatively new set up. It all just works. I have been having a niggling issue with Plate Solving the past few nights. For some reason during polar alignment plate solving will fail and I will need to retry which works often or go as far as to restart everything. It's annoying. I am thinking its cable related but I will track it down. I really love the 840mm focal length for smaller targets like this one it makes a huge difference.

This was shot on the last night of 5 consecutive nights of imaging and 8 nights in the past 10 days. I'm not complaining, it had been a month and a half of clouds. I've got to shoot on nights that are available, but a long stretch gets tiring. Even though I am asleep while the rig does its thing I sleep with one eye and one ear open. A couple of nights off then I hope to add more data to this.

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RA (center)	22h46m44s.990
RA (top/left)	22h44m21s.500
RA (top/right)	22h49m41s.346
RA (bottom/right)	22h49m10s.394
RA (bottom/left)	22h43m43s.445

Dec (center)	+58°07′08″.32
Dec (top/left)	+57°42′58″.85
Dec (top/right)	+57°47′21″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°31′08″.86
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°26′42″.70

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