Western Veil NGC6960
May 19th, 2010
We have had the joy of a few nights of clear skies over the last week, and I took the opputunity to get in some imaging. I wanted to try my hand at a nebula, but finding something of both reasonable size to make use of my field of view (42.3 x 63.4 arcmin) is proving a little difficult.
After a bit of hunting around I saw that the Veil would be coming up over the house from about 1am onwards which would give a decent 3 hour window for imaging before the skies brightened up to much and below is the result
In the end of course I actually ended up getting about an hour and a half of data, of which about an hour was really good, the lesson being to stop mucking about with software and just stick to what works. However, this is a good start and something to be moving on with, the image itself shows some issues with colour correction, the reds are to brown for instance. However I was happy with the result on this nebula from an unmodified DSLR.
This weekend we have four nights of clear skies forecast which I am hoping to make use of, and this time going back to my trusty William Optics ZS66SD to take a proper wide field image of this area.
