Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  52 Cyg  ·  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula, Brian Hayward
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NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula

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NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula, Brian Hayward
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NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula

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The Veil nebula was captured from my backyard in Bortle 7 skies. 
This was an attempt to capture this without any filters.
240x4m frames total integration (16 hrs integration time)
Guiding RMS for these frames ranged from 0.3-0.7 arcsec.

I noticed odd tiger stripe style banding after final stack with any aggressive stretching, so I had to work around that to create this final image.
This is most obvious at the bottom of this image.   Increasing the dark point to eliminate this resulted in both loss of detail as well as totally clipping the center to black, so I stuck with this stretch as a first attempt at the veil.

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  • NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula, Brian Hayward
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    NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula, Brian Hayward
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NGC 6960 - The Veil Nebula, Brian Hayward