Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO, Fatih Erdem
NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO
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NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO

NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO, Fatih Erdem
NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO
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NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO

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Here is my very first narrowband image. Since I'm not that good with post-processing I've done minimally. I wasn't excepting this amount of details from this short integration time. The result is cleaner than I expected. I guess, dithering and having all the calibration frames worked quite well. 

I'm open for any suggestion, criticism and feedback.

Capture Details:

* Bortle 5
* Focal Lenght: 433mm
* 57 x 180" Ha Gain 100
* 24 x 180" OIII Gain 100
* Total integration time: 4h3m 
* 120 Bias Frames
* 15 Dark Frames
* 60 Flat Frames per channel
* Dithered every 3 frames

Post-Processing:
* WBPP to stack, calibrate and integrate
* Dynamic Crop
* ABE 
* EZ Soft Stretch
* PixelMath to combine Ha and OIII to create HOO image (R=H, G=O, B=O)
* Ranged Masked to pop the nebulosity up
* Curves Transformation
* Histogram Transformation

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NGC6960 - The Western Veil Nebula in HOO, Fatih Erdem