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The Wizard Nebula is an emission nebula located in a nebula-rich area of the constellation Cepheus, about halfway between the Bubble Nebula and Sharpless 132. The designation NGC 7380 originally referred to the loose star cluster in the blue area of this picture, but nowadays it is also used to refer to the cluster and its nebulosity (which can be more unequivocally referred to as LBN 506). The patch of nebulosity to the lower left is Sharpless 143.

This image is a tricolor narrowband image with Ha:OIII:SII:RGB exposures of 5:2:3:0.5 hours, a total of 10.5 hours of exposure.