First light - Cygnus Loop (Veil) 250mm Widefield

[sn2006gy]

First light sub: 

First light master:

Link to astrobin for all the gory details:

https://www.astrobin.com/vdhuxp/E/

Feedback always appreciated!

 

Edited July 6 by sn2006gy
fix links

[Vroobel]

Could you please write something about the stuff you used (I know that they are on AstroBin) ? 

Nice composition and details but I think it's stretched too much. 

Edited July 6 by Vroobel

[tomato]

That’s a great image, the fine filamentary structure and background nebulosity is particularly impressive. I would agree with Vroobel that the brightest regions of the Veil are a little bit too bright, did you use the masked stretch option in Pixinsight? 
 

I personally am not a big fan of starless images, but it certainly does help to reveal the faint structure, especially in this region of the sky.

[sn2006gy]

It's not really stretched at all beyond screen transfer, i think that's mostly a symptom of being under sampled - if anything, may try and pull the stretch down.

I may try a GHS stretch but first attempt there made it even brighter.

Basic process:

 

1. WBPP Integration, 2x Drizzle
2. RGB / SHO Pixel Math Combination
3. BlurrXterm - correction
4. BlurrXterm - Decon
5. STF -> Histogram Transform
6. Slight S Curve
7. StarXterm
8.   - Stars were cleaned with magenta fix
9.   - pulled down stretch on stars
10. Noise Xterm 70 level
11. Resampled back down to native resolution.
12. Aligned colors a bit in Histogram
13. Saved & Published.

Edited July 7 by sn2006gy