Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  LBN 191  ·  LDN 868  ·  NGC 6960  ·  NGC 6974  ·  NGC 6979  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995  ·  Sh2-103  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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Veil Nebula Complex, Jeff Coldrey
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Veil Nebula Complex

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Veil Nebula Complex, Jeff Coldrey
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Veil Nebula Complex

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It's been unseasonably cold and wet in my part of the world in recent weeks, so I've decided to tackle this wonderful northern hemisphere target for the first time, using 2006 data kindly shared by Jim Misti (Misti Mountain Observatory).

I'm surprised how dense the starfield is across the Cygnus Loop area … quite a stretch for my fledgling PixInsight starless abilities, especially dealing with artifacts arising from numerous star reduction iterations. Many of the Lum stars are saturated, so I have attempted to use Ha as luminance for tighter unsaturated stars.

Wish I had some OIII data to play with!
If anyone knows of a public Ha/OIII dataset, feel free to message me.

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Veil Nebula Complex, Jeff Coldrey