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Veil Nebula from NYC, Roland Roberts
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Veil Nebula from NYC

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Veil Nebula from NYC

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This image of the Veil nebula started as a set of equipment and software tests to get ready for a trip to a dark sky site. It just turned out that with some care and practice, you can actually get a decent image of relatively bright nebula even from someplace as light polluted as New York City. I'm in central Brooklyn, so it's not like being in lower Manhattan, but we're definitely a Bortle 8 site, and I base that on visual estimates from the zenith limiting magnitude (on a good night).

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Veil Nebula from NYC, Roland Roberts