NGC6995 - The Bat Nebula (Quinn Groessl)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 1340 · NGC 6992 · NGC 6995 · Veil nebula

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NGC6995 - The Bat Nebula

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NGC6995 - The Bat Nebula

Finally a night with no smoke, no clouds, and no moon. I almost didn't set up because it was forecast to be cloudy, but I'm glad I did! I got to capture this beautiful image of the bat nebula.

Photo is HOO/RGB. I used HOO mainly for the nebula and RGB for the stars, but I did not remove the nebula from the stars image so some of the RGB data is still in there. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out with only a few hours of integration time and about an hours worth of processing.

Update: 07/19/2023 - I decided to upload a revision with just my RGB data as well to show anybody what they might expect. Keep in mind, this is 10x30s of each R, G, and B filters. In Pixinsight I ran channel combination, automatic background extraction (subtraction), and I used STF to stretch the image. I didn't want to do any noise reduction, and I wanted it to be as free from my influence as possible in order to just show the data as it is. It's definitely got some a lot of noise. To me it just shows that anybody with a tracker can use pretty short exposures to capture this nebula even with a OSC camera you could get great color and detail.

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RA (center)	20h56m28s.74
RA (top/left)	21h00m16s.34
RA (top/right)	20h56m55s.40
RA (bottom/right)	20h52m37s.36
RA (bottom/left)	20h56m02s.89

Dec (center)	+31°21′42″.9
Dec (top/left)	+30°33′39″.6
Dec (top/right)	+32°29′55″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+32°09′14″.5
Dec (bottom/left)	+30°13′28″.6

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