Veil Nebula

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Two-color picture assembled from narrow-band Ha and OIII images using an approach inspired by Steve Cannistra's bicolor technique. Star sizes reduced by resampling the image 2x, applying aminimum filter, and downsampling it to the original resolution.



Camera :  Starlight Xpress SXV-H9 CCD camera
Lens :  Minolta 2.8/135 mm (@ f/4),
mounted with a home-made adapter
Filter :  Astronomik Ha and OIII filter
Mount :  Losmandy G-11
Guiding :  manual
Date :  2005 Oct. 08
Exposure :  Ha and OIII: 3x20 min each
Site :  Schöbendorf, Brandenburg, Germany
Processing :  Bias, dark frame, flat field correction, registration and digital development: IRAF; post-processing: Gimp


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