North America First Attempt (James Muehlner)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: IC 5068 · IC 5070 · NGC 6989 · NGC 6997 · NGC 7000 · North America Nebula · Pelican Nebula · The star 56Cyg · The star 57Cyg · The star ξCyg

North America First Attempt, James Muehlner

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North America First Attempt

My first narrowband imaging attempt. I like the details but I think this image would almost look better in black and white at the moment.

I was hoping for a deep, vibrant red color, not this sort of pale salmon.

I fiddled with the colors in StarTools but couldn't really get anywhere. I guess colors are something new I'll have to learn.

There's also some ugly ringing in some of the stars that I haven't yet cleaned up.

I think that longer exposures would have worked out better here. The wells were pretty empty at the end of each exposure.

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Description: The pink color is making my eyeballs bleed a bit so here's a mono version.

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Description: Minor tweaking of the final image, as downloaded from astrobin. I think this looks a little bit better already.

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Description: Reprocessed from scratch. Previous versions had way too little dynamic range. I even tried some noise reduction and put it north-up this time!

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Description: raw stacked image

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