dslr astrophotography
Veil Nebula
NGC 6992 Veil Nebula (East)
Acquisition:
Date: 05/10/2007
Location: Golden Grove , Western Australia
Optics: Skywatcher 200mm f/5 Newtonian
Camera: Modified Canon EOS 350D (low-pass filter removed)
Filter/other: Astronomik UV-IR Block L , MPCC
Mount: Skywatcher EQ6 Skyscan
Focus: DSLRFocus
Guiding: PHDGuide, Celestron NexImage, 70mm f/12 refractor
Exposure: 20 x 300sec ISO800 (100 minutes combined)
David Ahn 2007
Processing:
DeepSkyStacker: Calibration, Median Kappa-Sigma clipping stacking
Photoshop CS2: levels, colour balance, curves, saturation, scaling, jpeg conversion
Noiseware: Noise reduction
 
 
 
 
Comments:
My 1st visit to Golden Grove observatory. Foggy conditions towards the end cut the session shot.
Veil Nebula (East)
Constellation Cygnus
1400 ly
Magnitude 7.00