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NGC 7380 in Cepheus

 

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Scope: MN152 "Levy" Mak-Newt 150 mm at f/4.8,  Dos Picos Park, Ramona, CA   7 September 2012, Camera: ST8300M

Exposure: 16 x 10 minutes H-Alpha (1x1 bin),  8 x 4 minutes RGB Exposures (2x2 bin) 

Plus 12,000 nm IR image data from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer

Processing: Data Collection -  CCDSoft (as FITs).  Calibrated, stacked (Sigma Combine), LRGB channel registration, central gradient removal, and color equalization - Astroart.  Curves, Levels, HaRGB combine and finishing  - Photoshop. This image is a HaRGB combine with Ha channel and total RGB matched to minimize color shift.    Selective sharpening was applied to nebula features.   IR data was co-registered to the Ha data stack in Astroart and blended to red and green on the IR included images.  Final Image size is approximately 2400 x 1800.

North is up in this image. This is a hydrogen emission complex catalogued in the New General Catalog as a cluster as NGC 7380 but it is also catalogued by Sharpless in his catalog as Sh2-142.  This field  is located in the constellation of Cepheus.  This image replaces an earlier image in the archives here.  The Horizontal FOV is 88'.

Image center is located approximately - Equatorial 2000: RA: 22h 47m 00s Dec: +58°06'00"

 

Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Infrared Data Blended into NGC 7380 RGB image

Here WISE  12 micrometer sensor data is blended into the RGB image of NGC 7380 - data is "add" applied into Green "screen" applied into Red. 

CLICK ON THE IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE. A BLINK COMPARISON with and without the IR data is HERE

 

Hydrogen Alpha Emission ONLY IMAGE:

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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Infrared Data Blended into NGC 7380 Ha image

Here WISE  12 micrometer sensor data is blended into the Ha image of NGC 7380 (converted to RGB for IR blending) - data is "add" applied into Green "screen" applied into Red. 

"This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration."

 

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