Today is a landmark day for the New Forest Observatory.  After a marathon processing session involving a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and a hallucination-inducing lack of sleep - Noel Carboni has just finished processing the Summer 2007 mega-project, the Veil nebula in Cygnus!

This is a 2-framer using the Sky 90/SXVF-M25C combo and incorporates RGB, H-alpha and OIII narrowband data as well.  Total exposure time around 32-hours, total image processing time - at least the same.  It is clear that this object sits in the Milky Way - look at all those stars!

The most surprising thing about this object as far as imaging is concerned is what a huge impact even a little OIII narrowband data makes in bringing out the fine filamentary detail you see in this image.

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