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Eastern Veil, Minos Kritikos
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Eastern Veil

Eastern Veil, Minos Kritikos
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Eastern Veil

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This weekend was really, really humid (~80%), making any kind of astroimaging quite a challenge. Nevertheless, I still managed to capture this image of the Eastern Veil Supernova Remnant blast wave - imagine one of those stars in the field went boom about 6,000 years ago and that's one of the molecular dust clouds spreading through space.

The image was acquired whilst testing an unreleased version of SharpCap 3.1 with some new, very dynamic and intelligent live stacking features!

Camera used was my trusty Altair Astro Imaging & Visual Astronomy Hypercam178C and also their CLS-CCD Filter to really try to isolate the nebulosity with a 260mm fl, f4.3 doublet telescope.

This is a 110 minute deep sky live stack that is composed of 1654 x 4sec exposures with 67% gain and 33% offset with darks subtraction. This image was acquired, stacked and calibrated live as the night went by and was post processed roughly in Pixinsight.

I would like to shoot this target again when a not-so-humid night comes along to acquire cleaner data and to also then process it more carefully. Till then, hope you enjoy this preliminary version of the Eastern Veil Nebula

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Eastern Veil, Minos Kritikos

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