Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)
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Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula, Monty Giavelli
Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula
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Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula

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Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula, Monty Giavelli
Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula
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Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula

Revision title: Pickering's Triangle

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Pickering's Triangle, part of the Veil Nebula.
The data was collected over two nights with a small moon.
There were intermittent high clouds on the second night.
I would have added more images if the weather had cooperated, but it seemed that I had enough integration to build a fairly decent image.
I recently finished the Witch's Broom Nebula (another area within the Veil Nebula).
On this second image I decided to use more of the green when using PixelMath to build the Blue color channel. Let me know which one you prefer.
The processing (PixInsight) was similar to the Witch's Broom.

skyandTelescope.org -
The filaments pictured here are identified as NGC6979 also called the Pickering's Triangle and are part of the Veil Nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. This is glowing gas resulted from the explosion of a massive star approximately 7000 years ago. The shock wave of this explosion sweeps through the interstellar matter and excites the ionized hydrogen atoms to glow in red and the oxygen ones to glow in green-blueish hues.

PixInsight -
This is my basic processing sequence for a mono camera and narrowband + RGB filters.
WeightedBatchPreprocessor is a real timesaver and does a good job with most of the default setting.
The EZ scripts also work nicely with mainly default setting.

Blink - remove the obviously bad images.
SubframeSelector - discard image with high FWHM, high Eccentricity, or low star count. Choose a good reference image.
WeightedBatchPreprocessor - process and stack all the frames into masters.
EZDenoise - run this script on all the masters - Ha, Oiii, Sii, Red, Green, Blue
EZSoftStretch - run on all denoised masters to stretch to a non linear state
DynamicCrop - crop all masters together
AutomaticBackgroundExtraction - run on all masters to clean up the background
LinearFit - Red to Green and Blue
Starnet2 - use on all masters. Remove the stars from Ha, Oiii, Sii. Save the stars from Red, Green, Blue
      Rename star_masks - RedStars, GreenStars, BlueStars
PixelMath - combine the starless Ha, Oiii, Sii
      R/K: Ha * 0.7 + Sii * 0.3
      G: Oiii * 0.85
      B: Oiii * 1.1
      Name the new image HOO
ACDNR -  reduce noise in HOO
     Set  Lightness Amount to 0.4
     Set Chrominance Amount to 0.4
MultiscaleMediumTransform -  add a bit of sharpness but don't overdo it.
LocalHistogramEqualization - enhance local contrast and visibility of structures
      Use 8-bit - amount - 0.18
ColorSaturation - selectively bring up blue areas
CurvesTransformation 
     Try s-curves on 'R' and 'B' to bring out the reds and blues
PixelMath - combine the mono stars images into a single color image
     R/K: RedStars * 0.9
     G: GreenStars image * 0.8
     B: BlueStars image * 0.7
     Name the new image StarsRGB
CurvesTransformation  -  'S' to increase saturation
EZStarReduction - run once on StarsRGB
PixelMath - combine HOO and StarsRGB
Use other process as needed to personalize the final image.
I used the processes judicially, I tried not to over-process using any of the PI processes.
I then saved the final image as a .png file and used Lightroom to make some minor adjustments.

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Title: Pickering's Triangle - rotated 180 degees

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Title: Pickering's Triangle

Description: Added more subs to Ha, Oiii, Sii

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Pickering's Triangle - part of the Veil Nebula, Monty Giavelli