Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  IC 1340  ·  NGC 6992  ·  NGC 6995
NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula, Kyle Butler
NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula
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NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula

NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula, Kyle Butler
NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula
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NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula

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Description

Exposure Details

55x 300s Ha (111 gain, 10 offset)

55x 300s OII (111 gain, 10 offset)

55x 300s SII (111 gain, 10 offset)

13.75 hours total integration time

Processing

Processed each channel individually

Frames calibrated and stacked in PixInsight, drizzle 2x

DynamicBackgroundExtraction on each channel

MultiscaleLinearTransform noise reduction on each channel w/ Luminance mask

Stretched each channel to non-linear using HistogramTransformationFunction

Combined channels using PixelMath (Red = Sulphur, Green = Hydrogen, Blue = Oxygen)

ColorSaturation with masking

CurvesTransformation

Minor final touch ups in photoshop (Local contrast enhancement, star de-emphasis)

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NGC 6992 - Eastern Veil Nebula, Kyle Butler