There are so many great things about astrophotography, one of which is the never ending learning curve when it comes to processing image data. I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to process the 3 panel mosaic I captured over two nights at Spruce Knob summit. It had been a long time since I did 3 panels and I was learning a new processing program as well. So, I dove in and things came together much quicker than I expected. I am really finalizing my workflow from Pixinsight to Photoshop and may someday make a small presentation on that. But, in the meantime, this is one of my favorite areas of the sky.

The Veil Nebula Supernova remnant is also known as the Cygnus loop. Link to Wikipedia. To think this is the expanding remnant from a star 20 times bigger than our sun and happened over 8,000 years ago is stunning.

The complex covers a little wider part of the sky than this composition, but this was the best I could cover in two pristine nights on Spruce with my current gear.

For a complete technical list for this image, please see my astrobin page.

I hope you enjoy the image and can marvel at what it represents. Have a great day.

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