Sunday 25 November 2012

The Crescent and Veil nebulae

NGC6888, The Crescent nebula. This image was taken using exposure times of 15 minutes for
each colour filter and one hour using a H-alpha luminance filter. Unguided, 60 seconds
sub-frames with matching dark frames were captured. A ten inch f/4.8 reflector and an Atik
314L CCD camera were used:



This unguided image of the Veil nebula NGC6960 was taken using an Atik 314L CCD camera
using a ten inch reflector. 60 second subframes were captured with matching dark frames.
The total exposure times were five minutes for each colour filter and 120 minutes for the
luminance H-alpha channel: