Western Veil Nebula (Alex)

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Western Veil Nebula

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Western Veil Nebula

Western Veil Nebula with Pickering's Triangle taken in September 2022 in Southeast Louisiana. Originally, this was going to be my first attempt at a mosaic; however, I realized some of my data was pretty out of focus, so I decided to spend more time on the same location. Since there is a lot of data in this one, I plan to process it in a few different programs as a learning experience. This is a fairly quick process using my typical workflow in Affinity Photo.

I had imaged the veil nebula with my WO GT81, which frames up the whole area perfectly with the 0.8x reducer/flattener, but I don't particularly like the processing I did on it. I always felt it was too heavy handed, so I wanted to try it again, although this is a smaller area with the FLT 132.

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Description: Reprocessed in Affinity Photo using StarXterminator immediately after stacking and combining the all the filters.

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Description: Added more stars back in after StarXterminator.

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Description: Stacked in Affinity Photo
Processed in PixInsight - just installed to try out.
BlurXterminator, StarXterminator, and NoiseXterminator

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Description: Changing screens the colors seemed a bit dull. Increased saturation.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	6987873
PixInsight job	M2O7W9DH2F1ZB5FNLNK1K6TP0C3YF3TT
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h47m15s.28
RA (top/left)	20h42m37s.68
RA (top/right)	20h45m14s.55
RA (bottom/right)	20h51m45s.43
RA (bottom/left)	20h49m18s.90

Dec (center)	+30°53′03″.8
Dec (top/left)	+31°59′47″.0
Dec (top/right)	+29°27′46″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°45′50″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°18′06″.3

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