Veil Nebula (NGC6960, NGC6979, NGC6992 and NGC6995)

Constellation: Cygnus        Distance: 1500 lightyears

veil nebula

LRGBHaO3
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veil nebula

Ha
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Image spcefications:
  • Exposure: Two panel mosaic of 10 hours. Each panel LRGBHaO3 = 60:40:40:40:240:180 minutes
  • Camera: SBIG ST-8300M, Filters: Baader LRGB, Astrodin 5nm Ha, 3nm O3
  • Instrument: Televue 85 with focal reducer/field flattener focal distance 474 mm
  • Mount: Losmandy G11
  • Guiding: SBIG Off Axisguider, Starlight Xpress Lodestar autoguider and PHD
  • Location and date: Puimichel France (LRGB), Netherlands Overveen (Ha), Wateren (O3), July and September 2015

Image acquisition with ImagesPlus 5.75 Camera Control:
  • 4 Luminance of 15 min, binned 1x1
  • 4 Red + 4 Green + 4 Blue of 10 min, binned 1x1
  • 12 Ha + 9 O3 of 20 min, binned 1x1
  • 20 Flat fields with flatfield panel
  • 20 Dark frames of 20 min + 20 Dark frames of 15 min + 20 Dark frames of 10 min
  • 50 Bias frames

Processing in PixInsight 1.8
  • ImageCalibration, ImageIntegration, StarAlignment, ChannelCombination, BackgroundNeutralization, DynamicCrop
  • StarMask, Pixelmath, ATrousWaveletTransform
  • Non lineair: HistogramTransformation, CurvesTransformation, SCNR, MorphologicalTransformation, ACDNR