Western Veil Nebula - C34

A bicolor narrowband DSLR image. With a Baader 2" Ha 7nm and Baader 2" Oiii 8.5nm filters from Bortle 7-8 area of my home. 5 nights in total (Jul 31-Aug 5 2018)

 

44 subs × 720s for Ha (dithered)

28 subs x 720s for Oiii (dithered)

25 flats for each

50 bias for each

 

D5300 Ha modded

AVX mount

Orion ED80 with 0.85 reducer

ST80/QHY224C quiding

Sharpcap alignment

 

Stacked in DSS, processing in Pixinsight

 

Same steps for Ha and Oiii channels:

- Debayered strong channel extracted

- DBE

- Deconvolution

- MLT

- Histogram transformation

 

Star alignment of Oiii with Ha image

 

LRGB Combine:

L: Ha

Red: Ha

Green: Oiii

Blue: Oiii

 

SCNR

Curves

Unsharpmask

Star Reduction

Done