Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995  ·  Network nebula  ·  Veil nebula
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Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
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Eastern Veil Nebula

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Eastern Veil Nebula

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The revision shows a more realistic view of the region. In point of fact, the raw frames are absolutely saturated with field stars, making it difficult to see the nebula. A less extreme mitigation preserves that presence of field stars, but greatly diminishes their relative impact on the image.

I also find it interesting, that for the third or fourth image presented using this field star mitigation, it shows a spongiform distribution of the fainter field stars. I don't believe this is an artifact of the processing, but rather, that the new processing allows the underlying spongiform distribution to be more readily discerned.

I find it plausible that stars should be created in self-similar fashion to the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy clusters, which are also strewn over a spongiform spatial structure. I hadn't ever thought about it before in regard to star populations within galactic arms, such as here for our Mikly Way.

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I found it! Revision D now has a reliable, consistent, repeatable, and objective method for field star mitigation.

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Revision E -- more experiments in reliable, repeatable, objective methods for field star moderation.

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Rev F -- early stage wavelet layer denoising and field star moderation

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  • Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
    Original
  • Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
    B
  • Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
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  • Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
    D
  • Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
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  • Final
    Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain
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Eastern Veil Nebula, David McClain