NGC 7380 also known as "Wizard" also known as "Sorcerer" in SHO

Oleg Novoselov

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Deep Sky

Oct 28th, 2025

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NGC 7380

Resolution:: 5490x3996 px
File size:: 4830 KB

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Photo description / processing

I shot over several nights from August to mid-September, it lay around for a long time, a lot of work on it and also the vegetable garden. Processing features: 1. Laida SII 5 nm filter on a color camera, I didn't bother, extracted the L channel and used it for the SII channel. 2. I didn't like the stars from SHO, so I used HOO, on a too bright blue background, the stars still remained bloated, so I slightly suppressed their brightness.

Technical information

Telescope/Lens: Прямофокусник 300/996 "Изд.№3"
Camera: Touptek IMX 571 C
Mount: МТ-120
Guide Scope: Kenko ED 60/400
Guide Camera: T7M
Accessories: GPU 1.0
Software: N.I.N.A., Pixinsight, Adobe Photoshop

Location: Екатеринбург, район озера Глухое., Россия

Light pollution

Orange, Bortle 6 zone

Date taken: Sep 18th, 2025

Exposure

90 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 152 · Optolong L-Ultimate · Sep 18th, 2025
83 × 300″ · ISO/Gain: 152 · Laida SII 5 nm · Sep 18th, 2025

Total exposure: 14 h 25 m

Comments

Stanislav Borodinov

How do you manage to achieve an even background?

Oct 28th, 2025

Oleg NovoselovReply to Stanislav Borodinov

So, I should have taken flats, but I took this shot without them.
Even so, it turned out almost fine, just needed a little tweaking in the software.
The light pollution in the narrowband isn't too bad; it's when you're shooting galaxies that flats are absolutely essential.

Oct 28th, 2025

oeswww

It's a bit faint and the background is noisy (not enough contrast, in my opinion).

Oct 28th, 2025

Oleg NovoselovReply to oeswww

I tried to process it more gently, because those eye-straining images were getting to me.

Oct 28th, 2025

oeswwwReply to Oleg Novoselov

By the way, I tried increasing the monitor brightness to 100% (I usually use 60-70%), and it became a bit livelier, but it's still somewhat grayish.

Oct 29th, 2025

Oleg NovoselovReply to oeswww

Try adjusting your monitor settings properly, not just the usual way, and then the colors will look right (I'm talking about the Veil Nebula).

Oct 29th, 2025

oeswwwReply to Oleg Novoselov

And how should it be? If you choose the "Photo" preset, both saturation and brightness increase. But you can't sit at the monitor like that for long—your eyes start to bulge. That's why most people use the "Custom" preset with moderate brightness and contrast (above average). You, it seems, went to the trouble and applied restrained processing in the right settings, which unfortunately looks a bit dull on most monitors. The Veil Nebula in photo mode does indeed look very saturated. However, even without considering that, there are "clumpy" areas. But I didn't do any processing there at all.)

Oct 29th, 2025

oeswww

Would you like to combine the signal? I'll send you the stacks, and we can collaborate just for fun. It'll be 36 hours total. Not 50, of course, but the noise should be reduced by about half, and the details will be a bit better.

Oct 29th, 2025

Oleg NovoselovReply to oeswww

Let's give it a try. I'm curious to see how it turns out, and I'll also learn how to combine different sessions.
Just send the data channel by channel, and it would be great to have clean stacks without any subsequent processing.

Oct 29th, 2025

oeswwwReply to Oleg Novoselov

Sent links to the archives in a private message on the astronomy forum.

Oct 29th, 2025