NGC 7380 The "Wizard" Nebula

 Posted: Aug 14th, 2025
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Telescope/Lens: Sky-Watcher 150/750PDS
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Mount: JUWEI 14
Guide Scope: Svbony sv 106 60mm
Guide Camera: ASI120mm
Software: Siril, Pixinsight, Photoshop
Accessories: Asiair Mini
Exposure:
37 x 300" ISO/Gain: 100 - Svbony sv 220 dual band
Orange, Bortle 6 zone:
 Smolenskaya Oblast Aleksinskiy Astrodomik, Russia
 Aug 13th, 2025
3 h 5 m
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Resolution: 2726x2787 px
Scale: 11751 KB
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Taken with the Moon at 75% visibility.
Initially, things just didn't work out with this nebula. And the autofocuser created out-of-focus images, so another 10 frames had to be discarded.
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  14 Aug, 2025
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Taken with the Moon at 75% visibility. Initially, things just didn't work out with this nebula. And the autofocuser created out-of-focus images, so another 10 f…
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I'm also shooting it now and threw out 10 frames of 5-minute exposures—easy to do. The mount is shaking near the meridian...
24 Sep, 2025 Reply
Nickolay Replied to Oeswww
Does any mount act up at the meridian, or is it only yours? It's just that when I was shooting this object, I also had a large number of rejects when it was in the +- meridian position.
Yesterday, at 07:29 Reply
Oeswww Replied to Nickolay
I wouldn't say it's only mine in the sense that it doesn't pixelate now. Maybe because I switched to an off-axis guider. But even before that, it wasn't like this problem was always there. And my guide scope migrated either to the finder shoe or on the tube on a 2nd dovetail.
Yesterday, at 10:19 Reply

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