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Eastern Veil Nebula  (close crop)

 The Veil Nebula complex is in Cygnus, amid the rich background of the winter milky way.   The Veil is a supernova remnant from 5-10,000 years  ago, and is around 1500 light years from earth.  This picture above is a crop of the larger version, below, and is reduce to about 80% of the camera's raw output.  Registar counts over 15,000 stars in the original frame of this image.  

This is my first-ever attempt at the veil area.  It is quite dim and therefore especially difficult to image.  I've only seen it once visually, though a NHAC member's big scope with a special filter.

Image details. 30 x 4 = 120 minutes total exposures from the morning of 9/21/2006 at the HAS site near Columbus.  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor), Losmandy G-11 mount.    My current image processing workflow is here.