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Veil Nebula widefield, PghAstroDude
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Veil Nebula widefield

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Veil Nebula widefield

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EDIT: new 2020 data, stretched the red channel a good bit. Using SVBONY UHC filter which seems to let in OIII/H-beta and H-Alpha, but the red channel is out of focus when the lens itself is focused. My stock DSLR does seem to pick up Ha signal, and I believe in greater quantity than if shooting unfiltered, and the channel separation is easier in post. It seems that I need more exposure time overall to get more Ha, but shows that the filter works in isolating just that wavelength. I was under the impression that a UHC behaved like a CLS, but where a CLS lets in most wavelengths except for the ones that street lights emit, a UHC only lets in light at certain bandpasses, and nothing else.

Processed in Pixinsight, STF>ABE>Color Calibration>Background Neutralization>Split into R/G/B and did individual NR/unsharp masks, curve-stretched the R channel further. Morphological transformation on R and B channels, then recombined and ran ABE again. After that, did Histogram Transformation and copied a new instance of STF to the window, turned off the auto-stretch in the toolbar. Used EZTool suite for the rest (EZ soft stretch, EZ star reduction, EZ decon, EZ denoise/Rista mask).

UPDATED 11/9/2020 5hr59m exp time, 120x180s

Original image is a Repost from last year, reprocessed with GradientXTerminator and morphological transformation/stretching/multiscale linear transform.

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  • Veil Nebula widefield, PghAstroDude
    Original
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    B
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    C
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    D

B

Description: Frames from 8-20-2020 and 8-21-2020. 3 min subs 2hr39m exp time. 53 frames @ iso800 guided.

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C

Description: Rotated 90 degrees.

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D

Description: 5hr59min exp time, 120x180sec.

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Veil Nebula widefield, PghAstroDude