Veil Nebula (Richard Smith)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 1340 · NGC 6960 · NGC 6979 · NGC 6992 · NGC 6995 · The star 52Cyg · Veil Nebula

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Veil Nebula

First light with Nikon Nikkor 180mm f2.8 lens. Great light gathering power, some chromatic aberration. Next time will try stopping down form 2.8 to see if that helps. Still feels like an upgrade from the kit lens. Also the Skywatcher SAM could handle it, though the target was at or near the zenith so the weight of the lens was never too far of axis

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Description: Original Revision Notes: Revisited original data with improved processing skills! Used a synthetic flat in Photoshop to get rid of an annoying gradient, this helped me cleanly stretch the histogram further to pull out the nebula better. Also improved merging back the stars only layer, I'm happier with 52 Cygni's appearance in this new version

Updated revision: having figured out masking I managed to get a cleaner view of 52 Cygni - I had been struggling with it looking mushy, but isolating it to brighten it without messing with the processing on the nebula behind it helped

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