The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
For the 1st time, this image was processed entirely in PixInsight, based on the instructions in a "PixInsight for Newbies Workshop" by Ron Brecher and Warren Keller.
[Edit: this image has been replaced with one with less green]
| Exposure | 36@600 sec (6 hours) |
| ISO | 800 |
| Camera | Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504] |
| Optics | Skywatcher Esprit 120mm Refractor, 840 mm focal length |
| Filter | Radian Triad Ultra Quad-Band Narrowband Filter |
| Guiding | Phd2 using a ZWO 224MC on an Orion 60x240mm Guide scope |
| Controller | Images taken using Kstars on an Odroid-N2 (Raspberry Pi clone) |
| Location | Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. |
| Date | 2020-08-20 |
| Processing | Processed in PixInsight: WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script, Dynamic Crop, Automatic Background Extractor, ColourCalibration, MultiscaleLinearTransform, HistogramTransform, CurvesTransformation, LocalHistogramEquilization and ColourProfile. |