NGC6960 Veil Nebula (West) - Hubble Palette

Thanks guys........


Dave, I use Sequence Generator Pro for image capture. A lot of automation, including regular refocusing and auto pier flip. I am not 100% confident with it all just yet (need to sort my cables better) but I just have to go in & out to the scope from time to time after getting it all set up. I don't sit there all night with it :whistle: (In fact some guys go to bed and let it shut down everything at the end of the night.....including closing the dome/roof of the obs).

Anyway - in fact over the two nights I actually did 10 hours. I have now worked in the extra 1hr 45min into another image on Flickr & AstroBin; see links below. This time, rather than using Ha as the Lum layer, I have put in Lum taken from 5 x 900 sec subs using Astronomik CLS Filter. Perhaps not as eye catching as the HST palette - but I think the second image looks better at close quarters i.e. zoom in on the full resolution shot.

Flickr link: www.flickr.com/photos/kinch-astro/14348548360/sizes/o/
AstroBin Link: www.astrobin.com/104683/

That's superb!

Thats again a fab image again, visually similar (except for the colour) what you can see with a good narrow band filter, dark skies and large aperture.
I didn't assume you actually sat at the scope for that length of time, :lol:
it's still a fair bit of patience and work though.

Scope is down at the moment - had to send the Temma II control box away for repair. Good time to play around with previously acquired data.

Here I have done a Bi-Colour with the Veil (West) Ha & OIII subs: 14 x 900 sec Ha and 13 x 900 sec OIII.................................................Link to the image on AstroBin: www.astrobin.com/110201/


Kinch.