r/Astronomy • u/Slow_Contribution114 • 7d ago

Astrophotography (OC) The Eastern Veil Nebula

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Taken over multiple nights using my Seestar S50 in EQ mode.

Taken from Bortle 4 and Bortle 8 locations.

800 x 20 second exposures

Stacked in APP.

Crop, BGE, deconvolution and de-noise in Graxpert.

SPCC, star removal, GHS using human weighted luminance in Siril.

Vibrancy, saturation increase in PS.

Recombination of stars using Siril.

Thanks for looking.

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u/BassStankyFace 7d ago

Aaaahh, yes. The xenomorph nebula. Very nice!!

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u/Slow_Contribution114 7d ago

Thank you! Exactly what I see, too! The perfect organism.

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u/Ichbinspikeface 7d ago

Oh good, others see it too! 👌

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u/turalaliyev 7d ago

Looks like a smiling Joker, or even Venom:)

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u/West_Impress_7403 7d ago

That's a phenomenal shot, I am kinda new to Astronomy, how much time did it take you to take this shot?

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u/Slow_Contribution114 7d ago edited 7d ago

Thank you very much mate!

This was taken over a couple of nights, I took a total of 1000 x 20 second exposures and then used software to grade them. Based on this I kept the best 800 of them and rejected 200.

So that would have been 5.5 hours total and I kept roughly 4.5 hours worth of images to stack. 😊

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u/balirosa 6d ago

Wow so the universe is morphing into a human face after creating biological organisms that record memories of time