2 panel mosaic of Veil Nebula (Geof Lewis)

2 panel mosaic of Veil Nebula

My first ever DSO mosaic comprising images captured on 21 & 23 August 2015 which are separately posted at...

http://www.astrobin.com/204880/

and

http://www.astrobin.com/205461/

Please see those images for capture details.

Vers B - rebuilt the mosaic after fixing the poor stacking in the original western veil (ngc6960) image. I also used a different tool in IP to build the mosaic, this time using 3 star TSR align on the source images and subsequently tweaking the source images to better blend the joins - still not perfect, but I feel that I'm getting there.

Vers C - The 2 frames were aligned in ImagesPlus then exported and combined in PS. A large lasso was drawn around the the overlapped region with a 250 pixel feather, then a levels adjustment applied to 'blur' the joins.

Vers D - Similar approach to VersB with all processing done in ImagesPlus. I used the 'normalise' tool on the 2 panels to improve their balance with each other, then applied a curves adjustment incorporating a blurred painted luminance mask over the left edge of the western veil image to better blend the joins.

Original
B
C
Final
D

Nebulae

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