NGC6960 - The Witch's Broom Nebula in HOO+RGB (Nicolas Adriano Faria Sanches)

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

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NGC6960 - The Witch's Broom Nebula in HOO+RGB

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NGC6960 - The Witch's Broom Nebula in HOO+RGB

Link: https://www.instagram.com/astro.behavior/

This nebula isn't an easy one. It is a hard target to capture, as it is very dim and requires long exposure times using lots of filters. And it is also hard to process as you end up with a large dataset with both narrowband and broadband data to merge together. It took me some time, as dealing with HOO+RGB merging is something new to me still, but I'm very happy with the result. I hope you enjoy it!

Constructive criticism, comments and suggestions are more than welcome in the comments section.

Acquired by Pier 7 telescope system from RoboScopes

Telescope: William Optics FLT132 F5.6 APO

Camera: ZWO ASI1600MM Pro

Filters: ZWO RGB HaOIII 7nm

Mount: Paramount MX

Location: e-Eye Observatory, Extremadura, South West Spain

Ha: 12x600"
OIII: 46x600"
R: 24x600"
G: 24x600"
B: 24x600"
Total Integration Time: 21hrs40min or 1300'

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	5231547
PixInsight job	RDZ8OV43KHSC0UWFSGJXPBKVPP0ZN158
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	20h45m46s.53
RA (top/left)	20h44m05s.10
RA (top/right)	20h44m08s.66
RA (bottom/right)	20h47m27s.13
RA (bottom/left)	20h47m25s.39

Dec (center)	+30°42′54″.5
Dec (top/left)	+31°10′09″.5
Dec (top/right)	+30°15′05″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+30°15′31″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+31°10′37″.7

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