Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  34 Cyg)  ·  37 Cyg)  ·  Crescent Nebula  ·  IC 1311  ·  IC 4996  ·  NGC 6888  ·  NGC 6910  ·  Permanent nova (P Cyg  ·  The star Revenant of the Swan  ·  The star Sadr (γ Cyg
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Tongues of Fire in Cygnus: A Mosaic in HOO with HaGO Stars, Alex Roberts
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Tongues of Fire in Cygnus: A Mosaic in HOO with HaGO Stars

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Tongues of Fire in Cygnus: A Mosaic in HOO with HaGO Stars, Alex Roberts
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Tongues of Fire in Cygnus: A Mosaic in HOO with HaGO Stars

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While I originally planned for this two panel mosaic to be done in the HaGO palette, I ended up liking the HOO palette better.  Mainly because the OIII shell around the Crescent Nebula shows up much better in HOO.  I still utiizaed the green chanel however, to create more natural star colors than the overly blue stars one typically gets with HOO.  Thanks to StarXTerminator, I could remove the stars and create a separate star image in the HaGO palette.  The HaGO star image was later integrated into the starless HOO image and then tweaked to my liking.

I'm amazed by all the astrophoto processing tools that are now at our disposal these days.  It seems we can do things that weren't possible a couple of years ago.

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Tongues of Fire in Cygnus: A Mosaic in HOO with HaGO Stars, Alex Roberts