Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  B355  ·  NGC 7000  ·  North America nebula  ·  Sh2-117
NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
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NGC 7000, the North America Nebula

NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
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NGC 7000, the North America Nebula

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Started as a curiosity thing when I wanted to do some data of Jupiter and attempt a near full-moon image of the Lagoon Nebula, I found that I was able to get at least the "southern end" of the nebula and the Cygnus Wall in frame, so I spent most of the night collecting data of this object.

As it is, this image was really difficult to work through in post processing with a very problematic amount of green noise and insufficient data, and temperature problems with an uncooled camera (+150 gain being a notch too high under these light polluted conditions).

Overall, I am pretty pleased with the result given the conditions I imaged under, and will make this image something of a big ongoing project this summer!

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  • NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
    Original
  • NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
    B
  • NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
    C
  • Final
    NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker
    D

B

Description: A very small, but important fix in my eyes, removing both vertical and horizontal banding.

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C

Description: Added about 3 hours of Hydrogen Alpha data to make an overall HaRGB composite image.

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D

Description: Fine tuned the crunchy noise, subtle contrast enhancement using a lightness layer as luminance.

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NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, Evelyn Decker

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