David_Pickles
NGC6960 The Western Veil Nebula
This is my latest attempt at imaging the Western Veil Nebula (NGC6960) from my home observatory. The nebula is part of a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,470 light-years from Earth. It forms part of the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant from a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, that exploded around 8,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 6 times the diameter of the full Moon.
This image is the result of 54 x 300s exposures (4.5hrs in total), captured using a ZWO ASI2600 Colour CMOS camera, with an Altair Astro Quad-Band Filter, attached to a Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener.
The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro, preprocessing was done using Astro Pixel Processor with final processing done in Photoshop CC.
NGC6960 The Western Veil Nebula
This is my latest attempt at imaging the Western Veil Nebula (NGC6960) from my home observatory. The nebula is part of a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus and is approximately 1,470 light-years from Earth. It forms part of the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant from a star 20 times more massive than the Sun, that exploded around 8,000 years ago. The remnants have since expanded to cover an area of the sky roughly 6 times the diameter of the full Moon.
This image is the result of 54 x 300s exposures (4.5hrs in total), captured using a ZWO ASI2600 Colour CMOS camera, with an Altair Astro Quad-Band Filter, attached to a Altair Wave 115ED with 0.79x reducer and field flattener.
The images were captured using Sequence Generator Pro, preprocessing was done using Astro Pixel Processor with final processing done in Photoshop CC.