ScienceDownEast | ScienceDownEast Astrophotography | Nebulae | NGC 6960 Veil Nebula | NGC_6960 Western Veil Aug. 20, 2020
The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.This image taken without the moon in the sky (just past new moon) with the Triad Ultra Quad Narrow-Band filter, which permitted shooting from with light-polluted suburbia.
For the 1st time, this image was processed entirely in PixInsight, based on the instructions in a "PixInsight for Newbies Workshop" by Ron Brecher and Warren Keller.
[Edit: this image has been replaced with one with less green]
For the 1st time, this image was processed entirely in PixInsight, based on the instructions in a "PixInsight for Newbies Workshop" by Ron Brecher and Warren Keller.
[Edit: this image has been replaced with one with less green]
Exposure | 36@600 sec (6 hours) |
ISO | 800 |
Camera | Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504] |
Optics | Skywatcher Esprit 120mm Refractor, 840 mm focal length |
Filter | Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band Narrowband Filter |
Guiding | Phd2 using a ZWO 224MC on an Orion 60x240mm Guide scope |
Controller | Images taken using Kstars on an Odroid-N2 (Raspberry Pi clone) |
Location | Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. |
Date | 2020-08-20 |
Processing | Processed in PixInsight: WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script, Dynamic Crop, Automatic Background Extractor, ColourCalibration, MultiscaleLinearTransform, HistogramTransform, CurvesTransformation, LocalHistogramEquilization and ColourProfile. |