Eastern Veil in Narrowband

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Photographer Wes Stauffer
Optics Takahashi TOA - 130F with Flattener
Mount Paramount ME
Guiding Takahashi FS-60C with STL External Guide Head
Camera SBIG STL 11000M
Filters Astrodon SII, Ha, OIII
Dates/Times September 28 - October 10, 2007
Location Tiburon, CA
Exposure Details SII - Ha - OIII - 330 x 330 x 300  (30 Minute Subs)
Acquisition CCDSoft 5 and The Sky 6 Controlled via CCDAutopilot 3
Processing CCDStack, Photoshop CS2
Notes This image of the Eastern Veil  in Cygnus is a combination of 16 hours of narrowband data. This image is the second part of a planned mosaic of the complete Veil complex.

Initial processing was performed in CCDStack including Positive Constraint Deconvolution for each narrowband channel (75 iterations).  Final processing was performed in PS CS2 including slight color noise reduction and final color tweaking.