Veil Nebula Complex

Equipment

• Camera SVXR-18
• Telescope FS60
• Mount Orion Atlas
• Guided with Starlight Xpress OAG
• Guide Camera QHY5L-2
• FW Starlight Xpress
• Filters Astrodon 5nm (36mm)

Software

• Capture: Main Sequence Generator
• Mount Control: EQMOD
• Calibrated and Processed: Pixinsight

Exposure

• 28 x 1h Ha
• 27 x 1h OIII
• 30 x 1m each RGB (for stars colors)
• Total Time +55h

Since the star of the show is the Veil Complex, I have created another version of the image reducing the brightness of the small stars a bit. Reducing the stars creates an interesting effect, it pops out the nebula!

 

The next couple of images are a closeup of the Eastern Veil nebula NGC6992. The image was taking using a telescope with longer focal length (540mm) and a camera with smaller pixels, the resolution of this image is 1.76″/pixel compared to 4.36”/pixel of the latter system.

L Channel, mix of Ha + OIII filters @ native resolution

 

 

Bi-color image Ha+OIII+RGB stars (80% of native resolution)

• Telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 160
• Camera: Atik 460EX
• Filters: Astrodon 5nm
• Mount: Takahashi EM200
• Filterwheel: Starlight Xpress
• Guide Camera: Starlight Xpress Lodestar
• Guided with: Starlight Xpress OAG
• 55 x 20m Ha
• 57 x 20m OIII
• 32 x 20s RGB per each color channel
• Acquired with Main Sequence Generator Pro
• Processed with Pixinsight.