Other Names: The "Wizard" Nebula, NGC 7380, LBN 511
Optics: Borg Astrograph 101ED at f/4.1
Mount: Atlas EQG using The Sky6 and EQMOD
Camera: QSI 583WS
Filters: Astrodon Ha 3nm
Exposure: 390 Mins, 6.5 hours [78 x 300s] Ha
Accessories: Auto guided with Borg 45ED and Orion Starshoot Auto guider using Maxim Guiding
Location: Cypress Hills, SK & Calgary, AB
Date: August 18th, 19th & 30th
Notes: Processing: Image acquisition with Maxim DL Pro. using MaxPilote automation. Image calibration, align, and combine in Maxim DL Pro. Levels, curves, crop and resize in Photoshop.

Calibrated w/25 Darks, 40 Bias, 10 Flats using light box, CCD temperature was -20C & -15C. Image was taken over multiple nights from the dark sky preserve in Cypress Hills Sk, and from my backyard in Calgary.

This HII region, entwined with the star cluster NGC 7380, contains 4000 solar masses of gas and is ionised by the eclipsing binary star DH Cephei (O6+O6). It is associated with a molecular cloud containing an additional 6-15 thousand solar masses of gas, and the star cluster NGC 7382, which are all part of the Cep OB1 association.