NGC 6992 - Flying Bat Nebula - part of the Veil Nebula (Monty Giavelli)

NGC 6992 - Flying Bat Nebula - part of the Veil Nebula

Revision title: NGC 6992 - Flying Bat Nebula

NGC 6992 - Flying Bat Nebula - part of the Veil Nebula

Revision title: NGC 6992 - Flying Bat Nebula

9/5/2022 Update
I reprocessed this image to give it a more realistic look

2-4-21 Update
This one is just for fun, I clone stamped out anything I didn't want and used PixelMath and LRGBCombination to really tweak the colors.
Tom Gray callied it "A Bat Out of Hell" - looks right to me.

11-17-2021 Update
I added about 4 more hours of imaging to the bat. I'm still having unmanageable gradients that I can't remove. Maybe they aren't gradients ??? Today I will clean my primary and secondary mirrors. I had to darken the background too much to tone down the gradients.
I only took Ha and Oiii for this image. Palette is OHH.

Big moon, car headlights coming in and out etc etc. I had background gradients that I couldn't get rid of so I decided to make an OHH image and used Lightroom to reduce the gradients. You can still see blue and red gradients in the image. When conditions improve I will give it another go. But for now, it's a bit of an artistic impression of the Flying Bat.

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