Lynd's Dark Nebula 988 in Cygnus - LRGB

LDN988 LRGB


LDN988 is an interesting area of Cygnus - dark nebulae abound but also interesting albeit tiny emission nebulae and reflection nebulae. 

Here is the pure RGB (given the exposure times I thnik it shows off well without the Luminance)

LDN 988 pure RGB



22/23/24 x 10 min each of RGB, 43x10 min Luminance
Camera: Moravian G4 (16803) w Gen II Astrodon RGB and H-Alpha
Scope: Astrophysics AP155EDF Refractor w Focus Boss II
Mount: Paramount MX
Guiding SBIG ST402ME attached to a Borg 60mm guidescope
RGB and Luminance processing in PixInsight
RGB: SPCC, BlurX, NoiseX, Curves, HT, masked Saturation Boost (via Curves)
Lum: BlurX, NoiseX, StarX, HT on the starless version, LHE, more noise reduction, stars back in, LRGB_Combine
Photoshop: Tweaks to colour halos on bright stars, save-for-web

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Lucknow, Ontario
Oct 2024

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