Aug 22nd, 2016 – NGC 6960 Eastern Veil Nebula
Thanks to the cloudy weather that we are blessed with here in Michigan (Not really Grrrr) I’ve got more time to do some image processing to my old data using some new techniques that I keep learning every day.
Captured this DSO from my lightly polluted backyard in Ann Arbor, I got 30 subs of each of the Narrowband filters (Ha, OIII and SII) and then stacked-drizzled them which looked relatively good.
Now usually when I get such frames I try to remove stars before I combine them together to bring in as much nebula as I can when enhancing the image with curves and astro actions, the problem with those image is it will be a nightmare to remove those stars and will probably take me weeks, lucky for me Starnet++ just released a newer version that support removing stars from mono images and to be honest it is amazing and works like a charm.
Below link is to download the new version, get it while it is free.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/starnet/Later on I combined the three filters to a Hubble Palette image (Red=SII, Green=Ha and Blue=OIII) and start enhancing the image and bring back as much nebula as I could and the final step was putting the lightly stretched stars layer back and here is the final image.
The color depth in this image is really interesting as you can see the Blue is Oxygen, Orange is Hydrogen and the White is Sulfur, it’s like it has a 3D effect to it. Hope you like it.
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