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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