Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6960  ·  The star 52 Cyg  ·  Veil Nebula
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Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960, jLanc
Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960
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Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960, jLanc
Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960
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Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Every data set encounters its own challenges. This time it was pre-processing! For some reason, after many weeks of trying to calibrate my frames it finally came together. The issue was that darks were not being subtracted properly from the light frames. Odd issue but I was left with over calibrated frames basically. Once the stack finally worked though this data was so easy to process, it took about 20 minutes! Everything I wanted in the target was there already, and there was plenty of colour data too. Quite happy with this result!

Data was gathered over two nights. The first only had 120 sec exposures only because it was windy at the time. The second night was a stunning, perfectly still night - so I went for 300 sec.

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Western Veil Nebula - NGC 6960, jLanc