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Michael A. Stecker
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NGC 6960 (eastern Veil Nebula
"Witch's Broom") -- full
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This supernova remnant showing glowing red Hydrogen-alpha and green Oxygen III light is part of the eastern Veil Nebula in Cygnus. The bright star is 52-Cygni. Photographed from my backyard in Los Angeles on the night of September 18-19, 2023. file: NGC6960Veil240sX48P2AP130f6FF2600 DuoL-eNh9182023b1.jpg Photographic Data telescope: Astro-Physics 130 mm (5.1-inches) f/6.7 EDF Starfire refractor with field flattener (focal length= 877 mm)
mount:
ZWO AM5 harmonic/strainwave Mount Guide Settings in Asiair Plus: Calibrate Step: 1,000 ms Dec Duration: 600 ms RA Duration: 400 ms Aggression: 50% for both RA & Dec Exposure time for guiding: 1 second
Guiding hardware:
Via the 220 Mini guide sensor on the ZWO ASI2600MC Duo camera controller/computer ZWO Asiair Plus via WiFi to Samsung S7+ tablet . imaging camera: ZWO ASI2600MC Duo one-shot color astro-camera cooled to 14-degrees F with Optolong L-eNhanced nebular filter . guiding: Via the 220 Mini guide sensor on the ZWO ASI2600MC Duo camera
exposures:
240 seconds X 48 (193-minutes or 3.2 hours)
date:
night of September 18-19, 2023
processing
Stacked in Asiair Plus and cropped and post-processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements . photographic site: West Los Angeles http://mstecker.com/pages/chhouses_fp.htm (Bortle 9 light polluted sky) |
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