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NGC 6960 - Western veil nebula

NGC 6960 - Western veil nebula
NGC 6960 - Western veil nebula
Zoomglass
clock 2021-10-10 0 comment(s)

Quote The veil nebula is quite large, much larger to fit in the frame with this configuration so I decided to give it a shot but only trying to photograph the west part of the nebula. With the AstroTrac I can only do about 2 hours worth of integration before the trac has to be "rewinded", so what I did was to simply frame the target perfectly (which took about 15-20 minutes), and then rewind the whole mount and start over. But because I had done the alignment before I only needed to "re-align" the RA-axis, which took only about two minutes. I'm really happy with the end-result. There is however a small hint of "red-ishness" visible in the background, which apparently is because of the severe light pollution of Munich. Quote

Date: 2021-10-10 / 20:58:00 UTC
Location: Munich, Germany
Temperature: 5 °C
Telescope: William-Optics ZenithStar 71ED
Camera: Canon 600Da (Astronomiser Rear Filter Removal)
ISO: 800
Mount: Manfrotto MT055CXPRO3, AstroTrac TT320X-AG, TW3100 wedge
Exposure time: 98 X 60 sec
Reducer/flattener: William-Optics 0.8X reducer/flattener (P-FLAT-F6)
Filter: Astronomik CLS
Other info: Total of 98 lights (1hr, 38min), 12 darks @ 60s, 30 bias, 15 flats.
Processing: Stacked in DeepSkyStacker 4.2.6. Processed in Photoshop CS6.

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