Eastern Veil Nebula (NGC 6992) reprocessed with a new bag of tricks

• Telescope: Stellarvue SVA130T-IS
• Mount: Losmandy G-11 with Gemini 2 controller
• Autoguiding: Yes
• Optical Configuration: 0.72x field flattener & reducer (f/5)
• Camera: Canon 60Da
• Light Frames: 25, 5-min. exposures
• Calibration: None (no darks, no flats, no biases)
• Exposure Time: 125 min. (25 x 5 min.)
• ISO: 1250
• Processing: Photoshop CC
• Imaging Location: Prairie City, Ore.

As mentioned in a previous post, the Veil Nebula poses something of a challenge for astrophotographers. Located in a dense star field in the constellation Cygnus, this relatively dim emission nebula must compete for attention among thousands of stars. But Papa’s got a new bag of tricks, so it’s not much of a competition anymore.

The above image was processed with the same imaging data used for the original images posted in September 2017 (https://tvhiggins.com/astroimaging/the-east-veil-nebula-ngc-6992/), but the results are very different.