Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  52 Cyg  ·  HD198330  ·  HD198482  ·  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
Western Veil, George Chappel
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Western Veil

Western Veil, George Chappel
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Western Veil

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The subs for this image were first light for my son's new camera (QHY268M) and our first experience with a cooled CMOS camera.  Based on star shape (ugh!), the camera's APS-C chip was obviously too large for the focal reducer to handle, so we never captured bias, darks, or flats since we were just messing around and never considered producing a final image.  However, when I came across the data over a year later, instead of deleting it, I decided to quickly process it to see how it would turn out without any calibration frames.  Looks decent as long as you don't go pixel peeking 

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Western Veil, George Chappel