Western Veil Nebula, Close
NGC6960 in Cygnus, the western part of the Veil Nebula. Also known as: Cirrus Nebula, Filamentary Nebula, Lace-work Nebula, Veil Nebula. The bright star, 52 Cygni, makes this one easy for us "find it yourself" guys to locate. This area of the sky has so many stars that they tend to overwhelm the delicate nebula when normal processing techniques are used. I am going to make another pass at this and try to suppress the stars. The dim red color below the nebula does appear to be "real" after reviewing other deep exposures of this area and this has been independently corroborated.
Image: Combination of approximately 30 - 4 minute exposures = 120 minutes (2 hours) total exposure. My current image processing workflow is here.
What's this? This is the LAB "a" channel of (uncropped) the Veil Image!
Equipment: Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor) with reducer, guided with SBIG STV, Losmandy G-11 mount.
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