Western Veil and Pickering's Triangle (JDJ)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 52 Cyg · Filamentary nebula · Lace-work nebula · NGC 6960 · Sh2-103 · The star 52Cyg · Veil nebula

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Western Veil and Pickering's Triangle

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Western Veil and Pickering's Triangle

Continuing my tour of the Veil Nebula, this image is a close-up of the Western Veil Nebula and Pickerings Triangle. Before I figured out I could get both the Western and Eastern Veil in one frame, I took a few hours of images on both separately. This image adds an additional 2 hours data for the east side to the 5 hours data covering both sides of the Veil for a total of 7 hours worth of subs covering the Western Veil Nebula. I've been adding some new post-processing steps into my routine as I worked through this series of images. I've started using Photometric Color Calibration since the results seem to turn out better for me than Color Calibration. I tried using MaskedStretch instead of Histogram Tranformation for the first time (working on not blowing out my stars) and boy do I like that one a lot.

Imaged on the nights of September 7/17/18/19, 2019 with WO GT81 at F4.7 (382 mm focal length) using Flat6A II field flattener/0.8x reducer, Optolong L-Enhance dual narrowband filter, and full spectrum modified Nikon D5300.

Pre-processed using PixInsight Batch Pre-Processing (BPP) script. Images calibrated using darks, bias, and flats. Stacked 70 subs (360 sec at ISO 400) for a total integration time of ~7 hours. Post-processed in Pixinsight using RGB workflow: Cropped, gradient removal with ABE, MLT for noise reduction, Photometric Color Calibration, stretched using Masked Stretch, Curves Transformation, HDR transform, Morphological Transform to shrink starts, and Local histogram transform.

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RA (center)	20h47m01s.45
RA (top/left)	20h50m09s.59
RA (top/right)	20h42m37s.40
RA (bottom/right)	20h43m56s.50
RA (bottom/left)	20h51m19s.76

Dec (center)	+31°00′40″.4
Dec (top/left)	+32°10′40″.8
Dec (top/right)	+31°58′56″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°49′54″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°01′44″.1

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