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NGC 7380 is an open cluster discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1787. Open cluster NGC 7380 is nicely intertwined with a bright diffuse nebula which bears the catalog designation Sh2-142.
Caroline Herschel discovered this cluster in 1787, when her brother William was absent. As usual, William Herschel included his sister's discovery in his catalog, and labeled it H VIII.77.
(Text adapted from http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/n7380.html)

Remarkable features Click the image for a higher resolution version NGC 7380 is an open cluster with an associated nebulosity.  It is 25 arcminutes large, with a visual magnitude of 7.20. HR8677 is a blue star, barely visible at nacked eye from a very dark sky. Its visual magnitude is 6.4. Sh2-142 is the catalogue name of the nebulosity associated with the NGC 7380 open cluster.     Find Chart The position of NGC 7380 (in the red circle) in Cepheus constellation. Image from Cartes du Ciel.

In order to produce the color image seen here, I worked with data coming from 2 different photographic plates taken at Palomar Observatory between 1989 and 1991. The original file is 7,095x6,078 pixels with a resolution of about 1 arcsec per pixel. The image show an area of sky large 2° x 1.7° (for comparison, the full-Moon is about 0.5° in diameter).
Copyright: Davide De Martin.

Other images of the same celestial field found online

• http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/7380.html by Robert Gendler;
• http://www.astroimager.net/Page-180-CCD-66.html by James Janusz.

This image is a composite from black and white images taken with the Palomar Observatory's 48-inch (1.2-meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II). The images were recorded on two type of glass photographic plates - one sensitive to red light and the other to blue light and later they were digitized. Credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey.