Daily Telescope: The Wizard Nebula captured above Germany

Good morning. It’s January 6, and at the moment’s picture encompasses a newish star cluster within the constellation Cepheus.

The stars on this cluster are comparatively younger, estimated at an age of about 4 million–12 million years previous. The cluster is formally referred to as NGC 7380, and the function is thought extra informally because the Wizard Nebula. It was first reported by German astronomer William Herschel, who mentioned it was found by his sister, Caroline Herschel, in 1787.

The Herschels had been born in Hanover, Germany, so fittingly, at the moment’s submission comes from an novice astronomer in Hanover, George Amanakis. He described his course of, with a complete integration time of 36 hours, as follows, “I acquired RGB for stars for a extra star-full composition. So the method was: SHO->starless->starless+RGB stars. I used a 5-inch triplet apochromatic refractor and a monochrome digicam.”

It actually appears to be like like a wizard’s magic to me.

Source: George Amanakis

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