Paul Walker
Registered: November 2009
Location: Middlebury, Vermont
Posts: 116
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Veil Nebula (East and West)
NGC6960, NGC6974, NGC6979, NGC6995, NGC6992, IC1340
Super Nova Remnant
2009-11-21
Middlebury, VT
Constellation - Cygnus
Exp 11x4min (44min)
ISO 1600
Orientation - north up
4.25 inch f/3.9 (422mm fl) reflector
Field of view: 1.9 x 2.9 deg.
German Equatorial Mount (Super Polaris model)
Camera - Canon Rebel XT (350D) (modified by Hap Griffin) (8 mega pixel)
with Orion Broadband Light Pollution Filter
with Baader Coma Corrector (MPCC)
Temperature - 32 degree F
Transparency 20.1 mag/arc sec (Sky Quality Meter)
Seeing X (1-10)
Stacking - Registax 5
Noise Reduction - Noise Ninja 2
Other - Picture Window Pro 5
Used darks and flats. Stacked 11, 4min exposures. Saved in FIT format with separate red, green and blue files. Did moderate histogram stretch on the 3 files, noise reduction, another moderate histogram stretch, combined into color image.
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