The Western Veil Nebulae (NGC 6960) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop, a supernova remnant, many portions of which have acquired their own individual names and catalogue identifiers.This image taken without the moon in the sky (just past new moon) with the
Triad Ultra Quad Narrow-Band filter, which permitted shooting from with light-polluted suburbia.
For the 2nd time, this image was processed entirely in PixInsight, based on the instructions in a "PixInsight for Newbies Workshop" by Ron Brecher and Warren Keller.
| Exposure |
50@600 sec (8.3 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 |
2020-08-22 |
| PixInsight Processing |
| WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script |
| Dynamic Crop |
| Automatic Background Extractor |
| ColourCalibration (both saturation and hue) |
| MultiscaleLinearTransform |
| HistogramTransform |
| CurvesTransformation |
| LocalHistogramEquilization |
| ColourProfile |
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