The Dumbbell Nebula (also known as the Apple Core Nebula, Messier 27, and NGC 6853) is a planetary nebula (nebulosity surrounding a white dwarf) in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1360 light-years.
I took this image over a few nights at my home in SE Wisconsin. The first night of imaging, my target disappeared behind my house resulting in almost no Sii data taken. The next night I targeted it I was having all kinds of technology problems but eventually got the gear going, but accidentally did a double dose of Sii instead of my plan of getting Sii and then grabbing some more Oiii.
The result was a bit fun to process as i felt I had some good subs to work with.
I did DBE on the stacked results from DSS
I used EZ processing suite for deconvolution then Extreme Noise Reduction.
In P.I. I chose a standard Hubble Pallet, but then ran some SCNR to pull out the green. I did some rough curves adjustment, then used Starnet 2 to create a "star" image and "starless" image that i could process independently. The I ran some pixel math to bring them back together and topped it of with a little Topaz Denoise.
Hope you enjoy it
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