Another capture from the phenomenal Cygnus Loop SNR; and my last imaging run on it this year. It's time to move onto other subjects, hopefully in less challenging parts of the sky.
I'm finding that my 102mm scope is a weird focal length to frame and especially isolate this particular structure nicely. Either way, I think I'll be approaching this entire region in a very different manner next year.
All up, this is just under 14 hours of integration, 45 minutes of RGB for the star colour, the rest is a roughly even split between Ha and OIII.
The equipment and capture particulars can be found on Astrobin,
I highly recommend checking out the full resolution verison.
The processing went a little like this:
Stars:
LinearFit > ChannelCombination > SPCC > StarX > GHS to Stretch > CurvesTransformation to add some saturation.
NB:
LinearFit > mild BlurX (on non-stellar only) > StarX > GHS
PixelMath to combine into HOO
CurvesTransformation for colour adjustment
PixelMath to bring the stars in
Mild BlurX to reduce star size.
NoiseX
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