La Petite Dentelle (Western Veil) NGC 6960

It's not the best time here for astrophotography, the nights are short the summer solstice approaches.

But I managed to have 3 hours of data on the Western Veil

 

The Western Veil (also known as NGC 6960) is a part of the Cygnus Loop a large a supernova remnant whose explosion dates back 10.000 years.

The Western Veil is a nebula made of ionized gas and dust located about 1,400 light years from Earth

 

-Equipment-

Scope: TS-Optics 94/414 EPDH (414mm focal)

Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro at -5°C

Guiding: ZWO OAG

Guiding camera: ZWO ASI 120MM

Mount: Skywatcher EQ5

Filter: Optrolong L-eXtreme

 

-Acquisition-

Light : 36x300s ( 3h ) at Gain:101 Offset:49

Dark,Flat,Offset

Date : Take on 3 night 06/13-15/2021

Location : France-Alsace Bortle 4/5

 

-Software-

Carte du Ciel, N.I.N.A, Phd2 , PoleMaster and PixInsight

All Processing in Pixinsight

Use EZ_Processing Suite(by darkarchon) in Pixinsight

 

-Pre Processing-

Image Calibration

Cosmetic Correction

Debayer

Subframe Selector

Star Alignement

Local Normalization

Drizzle x2

Crop the black bands from the stacking

 

-Processing-

 

Linear Fit

Channel Combination

DBE

EZ_Deconvolution

Background Neutralization

Photometric Color Calibration

SCNR (green 50%)

EZ_Denoise

EZ_Soft Strech

EZ_HDR

Curves Transformation with mask on nebula for Saturation, Hue and K channel

EZ_Star Reduction

 

Clear skies !

Done