Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Filamentary nebula  ·  Lace-work nebula  ·  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52Cyg  ·  Veil nebula
Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel", Min Xie
Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel"
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Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel"

Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel", Min Xie
Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel"
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Western Veil, Pickering's Triangle & The "Funnel"

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Description

This is the third and probably the last summer "All-Backyard" project for 2019 - all data, Ha, S-II, O-III and R/G/B are imaged from my bortle class 9 backyard over 12 nights. The amount of data is about the same as my previous project. But the seeing over these nights were not good at all. I can see the mean values from light sub-frames vary from 20%-30%.

This time, PixInsight was not used for the color blending. Instead, the color combination is done in Photoshop. I am pretty thrilled about how easy this way is - the result changes in real-time when the scroll-bars is moving! Very efficient and instinctive.

Overall, pretty happy about the result. The resolving power of the 85mm refractor really shines. There are actually more details that I believe my processing skills didn't pull out. I decided to post the "full" version and two cropped versions in separate uploads - they all have enough details to be standalone.

The Head of Western Veil & 52Cyg

Junction of Pickering's Triangle and the "Funnel"

Thanks for looking!

Comments are welcome!

Pre-processing of Narrowband Masters

- Calibration / Integration, Astro Pixel Processor

- Deconvolution, PixInsight (Only for H-Alpha)

- MultiscaleMedianTransform (Denoise), PixInsight

- ScreenTransferFunction / HistogramTransformation, PixInsight.

Pre-processing of RGB Masters

- Calibration / Integration, Astro Pixel Processor

- Dynamic Background Extraction, PixInsight

- MorphologicalTransformation, PixInsight

- ScreenTransferFunction / HistogramTransformation, PixInsight.

RGB Combination

- LRGBCombination, PixInsight

- MorphologicalTransformation, PixInsight

- ScreenTransferFunction / HistogramTransformation, PixInsight.

Narrowband Combination

- Color Combination, Photoshop

Narrband & RGB Combination

- Star Layer Combination, Photoshop

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