NGC 6960 – West Veil Nebula
NGC 6960 – West Veil Nebula
The west veil nebula is one I thought I had images before but realized I hadn’t done a very good job at all… so pretty happy getting a nice series of RGB and Ha/Oiii on this target. I mixed a little sulfur data in here as well, which it has quite a bit of even though I had seen a lot of HOO palettes. I really was impressed with the waves of Oiii data across this target, particularly the odd shaped section the upper left of it cutting downward through the typical waves.
Equipment
Telescope: Celestron RASA 11 (620mm focal @ f/2.2)
Filters: Astronomik MaxFR 50x50mm Square SHO & Deep Sky RGB
Main Camera: ZWO ASI 6200mm-pro Monochrome
Tilt & BackFocus Adjuster: ASG Photon Cage
Mount: iOptron CEM 120EC
Guide Scope: William Optics 50mm Uniguide
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI 290mm-mini
Location
Location: Pendleton, Oregon
Observatory: NexDome 2.4m Automated
Bortle: 3
Long & Lat: 45.67N, -118.79 W
Shoot Parameters
Date: September 6 – 23th, 2023
R: 134 x 30 seconds
G: 41 x 30 seconds
B: 134 x 30 seconds
Ha: 49 x 300 seconds
Oiii: 41 x 300 seconds
Sii: 33 x 300 seconds
Total Integration time ~13 hrs
Calibration Bias: 20
Calibration Dark: 20
Calibration Flats: 20 for each filter
Gain: 100
Cooling: -10
Processing Software: Captured with NINA, Stacked with Astro Pixel Processor, Processed in PixInsight
