The Veil Nebula - NGC - 6960 - The Witches Broom (Dale Penkala)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 52 Cyg · NGC 6960 · The star 52Cyg · Veil Nebula

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The Veil Nebula - NGC - 6960 - The Witches Broom

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The Veil Nebula - NGC - 6960 - The Witches Broom

This image was taken using the IDAS NBZ filter. The eastern veil I shot a few nights ago I noticed has much more luminance in the image and I think its because I used the L-Pro filter for appx 35% of the integration time. I think that is why there isn't quite as much brilliance to this part of the veil.
This image was much more difficult to bring out the details that I was hoping to bring out and I'm not as happy with it as the eastern veil that I shot. I will revisit this image to try and process it in a different way. I may go back and image it with my L-Pro and add that data to see if that helps me get the look I was hoping to achieve. I also used a fairly aggressive star reduction in Gimp and I don't think I like it with this image so far.

Processed in APP using the "HA/OIII Color" algorithm and final tweaks were done in Gimp.

Transparency was very good 4/5
Seeing: 3/5
Bortle 4.2

Thanks for looking!

Dale

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Description: Backed off on the Star Reduction

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Description: Adjusted the star reduction and contrast.
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Description: This is a complete redo of the original data using APP's RGBHOO algorithm. I felt that I was able to pull out more subtle details along with brightening the image more. I backed off on the star reduction as well.

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Description: Reprocessed

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Astrometry.net job	4946013
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RA (center)	20h46m05s.958
RA (top/left)	20h45m25s.557
RA (top/right)	20h43m38s.507
RA (bottom/right)	20h46m45s.667
RA (bottom/left)	20h48m34s.594

Dec (center)	+30°38′33″.31
Dec (top/left)	+31°17′17″.52
Dec (top/right)	+30°14′49″.91
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°59′52″.70
Dec (bottom/left)	+31°02′04″.18

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