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NGC6960 – Witch’s Broom in HA+OIII+OIII

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Here’s my NGC6960 – Witch’s Broom Nebula in HOO

Image Details
15x600S HA as Lighten Layer in Red Channel
15x600S OIII as Lighten Layer in Both Green and Blue Channel

Equipment Used:

Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED Refractor
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II

Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2

Processing:
Pre-Processing: Maxim-DL for Stacking, Darks and Flats Subtracting and Alignment of Colour Planes
Post Processing: PixInsight

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NGC6960 – Witch’s Broom Nebula in Hubble Palette Narrowband

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NGC6960 - Witches Broom
NGC6960 – Witches Broom

How Fitting for Halloween……My latest image – NGC6960 – Witch’s Broom in Hubble Palette Narrowband

Commonly referred to as the Witch’s Broom or the Western Veil of the larger Veil Nebula, this lies approximately 1470 Light years away.

In my opinion this is not an easy subject to image, and even more difficult to process, the image details are as follows:

15x600S in 7nm HA
15x600S in 7nm SII
15x600S in 7nm OIII
25 Darks
25 Flats

The HA was also used as a Luminance Layer

Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED Refractor
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II
Image Acquisition: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2

Processing:
Pre-Processing: Maxim-DL for STacking, Darks and Flats Subtracting and Alignment of Colour Planes
Post Processing: Photoshop CS5, Noise Ninja

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NGC7380 – Wizard Nebula in Hubble Palette Narrowband

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Image Details:
22x 600S – 7nm HA
19x 600S – 7nm OIII
19x 600S – 7nm SII
25 Darks and 25 Flat frames for each filter

Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2
Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: PixInsight

CCD Images

IC1396 – Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Hubble Palette Narrowband

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IC1396 – Elephant’s Trunk Nebula in Hubble Palette Narrowband

Image consists of
15x 600S – 7nm HA
15x 600s – 7nm OIII
15x 600s – 7nm SII

HA Layer was also used as Luminance and Overlay layer

All data was obtained over five nights, 7th and 8th September 18th September, 22nd September and 23rd September 2016

Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2
Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop

To date I think this is my best image so far, I am very happy with the results of the image and the colour balance obtained

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IC1396 – Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

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IC1396 – Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

The Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in the constellation Cepheus about 2,400 light years away from Earth

Image consists of
18x 300S – Luminance
18x 300S – Red
18x 300S – Green
18x 300S – Blue
8x 600S – Hydrogen Alpha (As lighten layer in Red Channel)

All data was obtained over two nights, 7th and 8th September 2016

Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron Telescopes Telescopes C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro
Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2
Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop, GradientXterminator, NoiseNinja

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NGC7635 – Bubble Nebula

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NGC7635 – Bubble Nebula
Image consists of
18x 300S – Luminance
14x 300S – Red
14x 300S – Green
14x 300S – Blue
20x 600S – Hydrogen Alpha (As lighten layer in Red Channel)

Equipment Used:
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF 8″ F4 Newtonian
Guide Scope: Celestron C80ED
Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD Cooled to -20C
Guide Camera: Qhyccd 5L-II
Mount: Skywatcher EQ8 Pro
Capture Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro
Guide Software: PHD2
Dark/Flat Subtraction and Stacking: Maxim-DL
Post Processing: Photoshop, GradientXterminator, NoiseNinja