The Eastern Veil Nebula

Equipment:

- Nikon D90 (Astro-Mod)

- Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer

- Sky-Watcher Tripod

- AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6

- Bahintov Mask

- Intervalometer

- Laptop

- All Sky Plate Solver

- Sharpcap

- Stellarium

 

Acquisition:

- Taken from a bortle class 2 zone

- 407 x 1″ light frames – total 6 hours 47 minutes (taken across - 2 nights)

- 59 dark frames

- 400 flat frames

- 500 bias frames

 

Processing:

- Manually stacked in pixinsight

- Crop to remove stacking artifacts

- Image solver

- DBE

- Photometric Color Calibration

- Deconvolution

- Noise Reduction (TGV + MMT)

- HSV reparation

- Masked stretch

- Star reduction x2

- Curves with and without masks

- Sharpening

Done