The Veil Nebula, 2600MM first light

[sharp pivot]

30 hours on this target, processed by @long flint , I only did a little touch up on his work, and I will publish my own processed version below

This my version, the processing is obviously way worse, I have no idea how he achieved that sort of coloring

[ember steeple]

wow thats actually so good

[sacred flume]

veil always blows my mind

[mild ivy]

Ngl haven't seen veil like this before. Excellent work

[sharp pivot]

Thanks!

[civic basalt]

Very nice data

Oiii is very defined

Only thing id change with ekuy's process is the amount of saturation. It's beginning to clip the reds.

Something in between yours and ekuy's would be fantastic

[sharp pivot]

That might be my doing

Lol

This is eukt original process

[civic basalt]

Ah lol, yea something close to that.

Just until the red channel isn't or even near being clipped.

[long flint]

sick,i didn't realise this was your first light

[sacred flume]

that is epic indeed

[sharp pivot]

Thanks but in contrast to ekuy process it kinda look meh

[sacred flume]

yeah but hes not human

[formal talon]

Just to make sure, you're not rocking a 100 inch scope right?

Oh duh

I wasn't thinking 2600mm is a camera

[blissful jackal]

in photoshop, gimp or photopea, or pix whichever you want, select your curves adjustment, change the curve to B instead of RGB, click the curve line around the shadows to make an anchor point and then stretch upwards around the midtones, that will stretch the blues and change the hue slightly to that less-aqua blue. This might effect your background though so adjust the anchor point you make around your shadows to change whether it effects the BG or not.

@sharp pivot

[sharp pivot]

Great tips, I will try that later

[blissful jackal]

Try it with red too and stretching around the shadows, it pulls the Ha out a lot. These are probably things that he did in his process regarding how you are trying to understand how he pulled out so much data

[acoustic stump]

Good lord this is insane looking, one of the most nebulous images of the Cygnus Loop I've ever seen. The colors seem a bit oversaturated in my opinion, but everything else is pretty good. What does the original stack look like, before any processing was done on it?

[sharp pivot]

You could check out share my data forum, I did post the data there

[sharp pivot]

I might try processing again when I have time, been busy lately

[sharp pivot]

In terms of saturation, I do love that super red pop on the Ha tho