NGC 6992 "Veil portion" in Ha

[Paramount]

Hi All
August has been such an abysmal month imaging wise with the typical British weather having its say. There appeard to be a bit of clear weather last night so I was desperate to get out and do a bit of imaging and I managed 50 minutes on NGC 6992 before the clouds came back in and stayed for the rest of the night. It was taken with the Starlight H36 on the TMB 115 with a 13nm Astronomik Ha filter, Paramount ME 5x10 minutes unguided, during the last subframe there was some thin cloud already starting to cover cygnus but I used the subframe anyway as it looked salvageable. Instead of using the simple autodark facility in Maxim DL I used 10x10 minute dark frames (taken a week ago) median combined and used those instead. Although more exposure time is needed to smooth the image I am quite leased with the result. I have included a closeup of main area of nebulosity as well. There are better quality images on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk as I had to reduce the quality quite a bit in order to get the size down for posting
Thanks for looking
Best wishes and clear skies
Gordon

[budguinn]

Nicely done, Gordon...this is always a favorite area of mine....really nice detail. Do you have an OIII filter to finish this off with?....it really has some very nice OIII tendrils in it.

[neilfleming]

Very nice, Gordon. You must be very pleased!

...Neil

[Paramount]

Hi Neil
Yes I am particularly pleased with this one especially given the poor weather only allowing 5x10 minutes of exposure, it looks much better in full size but unfortunately the package I use for my website automatically down sizes the images to 900x650 approximately. I had a look in windows paint at the full size image and I am really chuffed at the amount of detail that has come through and the stars are about as round and pinpoint as I can get with unguided subs. I am looking forward to adding the other two channels to this one and also get some more time per channel, but I still don't think I will reach the standard of the one you posted a while ago.
Best wishes
Gordon