01/01/2012
Mount Palomar, CA
Orion ED80T CF Triplet Apochromatic Refractor Telescope (Item # 09534)
Orion Atlas EQ-G Computerized GoTo Telescope Mount
Orion Parsec 8300M Monochrome Astronomical Imaging Camera
Captured in Nebulosity, Stacked in DeepSkyStacker, Mosaic Assembled In Photoshop?s PhotoMerge. Further Processing in Photoshop.
ALL Exposures 600 Seconds NGC6992 ? 20 Ha, 19 SII, 19 OIII, Pickering?s Triangle ? 23 Ha, 23 SII, 21 OIII NGC6960 ? 11 Ha, 11 SII, 9 OIII, Exposures taken over three months, total exposure time = 26 Hours
Orion StarShoot G3 Deep Space Autoguide Camera (Item # 53083), Orion 2" Nautilus Filter Wheel (Item # 05526) Orion 2" Ha, SII, OIII Narrowband Filters (Item # 25545) Orion 80mm f/11.4 Refractor Telescope Optical Tube Assembly (Item # 07380), Orion Dew Zapper Pro 4-Channel Control Module (Item # 03517), Orion Telescope Heating Bands (Item # 03520), Orion RockStable Anti-Vibration Pads (Item # 05155)
One of my favorite parts of this image is the "faint outer shells" of the structure. I love the Veil Nebula and I've never tried a Mosaic. I only wished I started this earlier in the summer, my last frame of NGC6960 was sinking fast in the west in October. I was able to capture NGC6960 during the last quarter of the moon, an advantage using Orion?s Narrowband filters.