Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  LDN 868
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Pickering's Triangle, Doug Gray
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Pickering's Triangle

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Pickering's Triangle

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Most descriptions refer to this as a triangle, or a triangular wisp, but I think it looks like a kite. So I've tried to frame it like a kite flying through the night sky.

I have avoided re-shooting the veil since I had captured it with the Z61 last year, but didn't realize how much more detail I could get with the bigger scope. This was a pain to process though, as the star removal required a lot of manual intervention. Final palette in degrees of hue: Ha -> 128°, OIII -> 240°, SII -> 6°.

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Pickering's Triangle, Doug Gray