The Veil Nebula: My first remote observation (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: 52 Cyg · BW Vul · IC 1340 · NGC 6960 · NGC 6974 · NGC 6979 · NGC 6992 · NGC 6995 · Sh2-103 · The star 52Cyg · Veil Nebula

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The Veil Nebula: My first remote observation

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The Veil Nebula: My first remote observation

Frustrated by the terrible weather here, and having lost all opportunities so far this year to catch the Veil Nebula as is crawls to 13 deg above the horizon, I decided to have a crack at remote observing. There are a number of great sites out there: Deep Sky West, iTelescope and Telescopes Live, to name but three - and I have been really impressed by the quality of the data produced from them all. And just a little envious, of course.

Planning to focus on Northern targets above 30N, (the rest I can do myself!), I signed up for a trial a Telescopes live which offer a rather neat "one click" observation feature, allowing you to specify a data set from an upcoming observation. As one of my targets, I chose the Veil and was rewarded 48hours with 2 x 600sec frames in each of S, H and O taken with the SPA-1 telescope, a Tak FSQ106ED and FLI PL16083 CCD

I must admit dealing with CCD (rather than CMOS) data took me back a little... but overall I enjoyed the experience. The were a few cosmetics on the chip that hadn't been removed in the processing workflow, but cropping and clonestamp took care of the most egregious ones.

Nevertheless just reducing data from a data set you have had no control over is a little like "kissing your sister", and I am keen to get onto remote observations where I can actually specify the subs to my liking. Also the image becomes even less a test of one's set-up/observing skill and more of one's post-processing skills. I post this with some trepidation as I am OK with the former, but still extremely average with the latter.

Still, I am impressed with the one hour's data I did obtain.

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RA (top/right)	20h44m37s.47
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