Section of NGC6992 - Veil Nebula in Cygnus

NGC6992
   
Telescope: Takahashi FS-102 @f/8
Camera: Canon 350D
Mount: CG11 w/Gemini
Guiding: SBIG STV w/135mm lens (piggybacked on scope)
Exposures:

11 @ 5 min.

Processing:

Images were focused, captured, and aligned with ImagesPlus. The composite was made and adjusted (Levels, Curves, Color Balance, Unsharp Mask, Cropping) in Photoshop CS. Grain Surgery was applied to smooth the image.

Location:

My backyard observatory in southeastern Minnesota (9/1/05).
Note: Seeing was slightly better than average; humidity was high. Temperature: 59F

   
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