Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380), natural colour
The Wizard as a colour camera sees it – without the Hubble palette.
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Buy in the shopAbout the object
The Wizard (NGC 7380) in Cepheus lies about 7,200 light years away. A cavity has formed around a young star cluster, its edges shaped by dark dust fingers. The colours are in the Hubble palette – different gases (hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur) are mapped to different colours so they can be told apart; the eye would not see them like this.
How the image was made
- Captured
- 21 September 2025 (start, several nights)
- Total exposure
- 5 h 25 min (65 × 300 s)
- Camera
- ZWO ASI2600MC Pro
- Focal length
- 976 mm
- Mount
- Celestron (ovládač CGEM/CGX)
- Location
- Banská Bystrica, Slovakia (home observatory)
- Calibration & stacking
- Siril 1.4.0-beta3
- Processing
- Adobe Lightroom 8.5.1 (Windows)
Data from the original file’s metadata or from the author.