18 hours on the Soul Nebula

Here’s another image of the Soul nebula. This image has a total of 18.3 hours of integration time. It was captured under Bortle 8/9 skies with at least 10 hours under nearly full and full moons. Skyglow and light gradients were big problems; the raw, stacked image did not have much promise. Processing brought out some detail and colors, but also lots of noise, despite the efforts of Graxpert to remove it 🙂. I think I’m done for this year on this object….