PhotoEsthetics

My favorite target is up in the night sky!
The Veil Nebula or Cygnus Loop.
Shot with an Astro Tech AT70ED paired with an SVBony 405cc, 0.8x reducer and SVBony 7nm Duo-band filter. All on top of a ZWO AM5 mount.
This is approximately 7 hours of data.

It's a been of months hasn't it??? For living in the desert, I sure have been getting A LOT of clouds! Went for something easy and s**t IC1318 in Sadr.

Sadr Region/IC 1318: Butterfly Nebula.
Location: Cygnus Constellation.

Astro-Rig:
- ZWO AM5 telescope mount
- AstroTech AT70ED Refracting telescope
- Hotech field flattener
- SVBony Duoband 7nm filter
- SVBony 405cc main camera
- ZWO 120mm mini guide camera
- Orion 50mm guide scope

Exif:
- camera cooled -5°C below ambient
- 50 x 300sec subs
- 420mm focal length
- 120 gain
- 30 offset
- f/6

Software:
- N.I.N.A TPPA/image acquisition
- PHD2 auto-guiding
- GraXpert AI background extraction
- PixInsight initial post-processing
- RC Astro's: StarXTerminator; NoiseXTerminator; BlurXTerminator
- Photoshop fine touch-ups

It's been a hot minute. Finally some clear skies! Going for an easy one since it's been a while.