This is my summer project for 2019. The entire Veil Nebula complex done as a 4 panel mosaic to give the greatest possible detail. Acquired over the entire month of July (over 13 clear nights this month).
The primary data is narrowband bi-color (Ha and Oiii), with a night of RGB captured and blended in for natural star color. This technique is great even under very light polluted southern skies as you don't need dark skies to get RGB star color quickly.
I have a series of youtube videos where I go over the planning, acquisition and processing of this project. Here's the link to the first video if you're interested.
https://youtu.be/pcQbp_A3eCoGeneral pieces of the puzzle here:
Sequence Generator Pro for mosaic planning and image capture
PixInsight for pre processing and mosaic building
Starnet++ for star removal on Narrowband data
Starnet++ for nebula removal (starmask) on RGB data
Pixinsight on tone mapping (nebula color)
Photoshop to combine RGB stars and tone mapped nebula
Pixinsight for Luminance processing (50/50 HA and Oiii)
Pixinsight for LRGB combination of Luminance with tonemap+stars and final tweaks
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