A lot of objects in the night sky have names that don’t necessarily match what it actually looks like. In the case of the Wizard Nebula, I can at least actually see a wizard (hat, nose, hands, etc.). This was a tough one to process due to the quantity of stars and processing them separately from the nebula.

Lights: Just under 40 hours of 300 second exposures of Sii, Ha and Oiiii as well as RGB stars
Darks: 30 x 300 second exposures
30 flat and 30 bias exposures
Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
Telescope: Celestron Edge HD 8 with .7 reducer
Guiding: Celestron OAG and ASI174MM Mini
Focus: ZWO EAF
Computer: ASIAIR Plus
Mount: Sky Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Power: AC
Processing: PixInsight, BlurXTerminator, StarXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, SetiAstro and Photoshop

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Jared, amazing especially due to the compositional element, nice flow and balance.

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