Just as with the eastern veil nebula, I found this region to be very challenging to process -- so many stars. I also found suppressing 52 Cygni, so the see the delicate filaments around it, to be a headache. The Ha suppressed some of the OIII blue green but I was trying to bring out the many HII filaments of the region.

Anyway, this is what I came up with:

http://www.tvdavisastropics.com/astr...s-1_000002.htm

Comments/Criticisms are always welcome.

Best,

Tom

That is beautiful! I was sitting outside and Cygnus is almost directly overhead and I come back inside and here you have a pic of a very small section of it. Amazing! Thanks for posting!

hi Tom,

...h2 regions...
mission accomplished!
there are plenty of details within these regions!
it is a spectacular image!
very well done!

when are you going to make us a cool mosaic at this resolution?
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Tom,

Beautiful shot. Great details, great color!

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Tom you have another beauty and a keeper there, those filaments and the colors looks magnificant!

Thanks guys.

Tom

I have a dumb question. I don't know much about photography so please bear with me . . .

The beautiful colors that I see in most astrophotographs, especially the red color in yours, are these the "true" colors of the objects or are they created via filters or post-processing?

The colors are "real" in that they are created through RGB filters (in the case of my type of camera). They represent the wavelength of light captured by the camera. They are just as "real" as the colors you see in an image you take of your landscape with your camera. The main difference is that when we look at an object in sunlight we are seeing the reflected colors in G2V light because our sun is a G2V star. To get appropriate color in astroimages we have to calibrate them to a G2V star. If not then the colors are "off".

Tom

Thanks Tom!