NGC 6960 the Veil Nebula west in H Alpha

Hi All,

Here is an image of NGC 6960 the Veil Nebula west in H Alpha. It was quite misty witch just seemed to enhance the light pollution the sky was an orange glow. I managed to get 40x5min exposures Darks was 16x5Mins Transparency was about about 5 medium haze seeing was not bad about 6 out of 10.

Through a William Optics FLT-110 Triplet APO refractor Atik 16Hr cdd camera. Guided with a Celestron 80ED And Sac 4.2 CCD camera with PhD guiding software On a CGE mount. Processed in Images Plus V3.5 and Photoshop CS2

I plan to do a big mosaic of this area if I get the weather

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Carl

Very good!
I like it a lot.
I love the viel, it reminds me of the Nexus in Star Trek!
Now I have to say again I know jack all about
deep sky imaging and I only go with a gut reaction
but from what I've seen through scopes this is a grand image.
I'd love to see a large (don't you mean massive!) mosaic as you suggest.

Your new set up seems to be payin off bigtime.

That's a beautiful image Carl. If you had perfect seeing and transparency I guess the Veil would be jumping out of the screen.


Great set up, great work, can't wait to see more.

Deirdre Kelleghan
PRO IFAS
President IAS

Holy cow, Carl, that is a beautiful image!!

If that's the level of detail you are able to achieve on even a misty night, then this is an object that is crying out for a large-scale mosaic to be made of the entire region. The results would be astounding! Go for it :woohoo:

Phil.

That's excellent. Nice work Carl.

Thanks a lot for the comments folks I want to get large-scale mosaic off this area. I hope the weather plays ball It's going to take a few weeks I'm going to need 3 to 4 hours of data per session before Cygnus sinks down to low into the horizon.

Carl.