NGC 6960/6979 witches broomstick and pickerings triangle in Ha & OIII

[Paramount]

Hi All
Well the weather forecast was wrong yet again saying it was going to be cloudy until 4am last night but thankfully I used my reliable method of weather forecasting and was able to get a couple of hours imaging done before the clouds rolled back in again. Having already done NGC 6992 I thought I would have a go at the other main area of the Veil complex again in Ha and OIII. I managed 6x10 minutes unguided for each filter so please excuse the quality of the image as I was hoping for at least twice as many subframes. I have enclosed the image which uses 100% Ha and 100% OIII for the red and green channels respectively and 50% each of Ha and OIII forthe blue channel. I also had a play around with Noel's tools and created a synthetic blue channel from the red and green and this can be seen in the image gallery on my website http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk
Thanks for looking
Best wishes
Gordon

[budguinn]

nicely done, Gordon...this is a great target for NB as it really rewards you in the OIII area.
I like Noels' action for the synthetic blue channel

[JMS]

That looks so nice Gordon, I still have a hard time grasping 10 min unguided.


Joe

[neilfleming]

Very nice. Why not try to grab some RGB stars to add in?

...Neil

[Paramount]

Originally Posted by neilfleming

Very nice. Why not try to grab some RGB stars to add in?

...Neil

Hi Neil
Thanks for the comments, nice idea about the RGB stars, but.....
1. My processing skills are not that good yet
2. I am seriously thinking about getting a 12 position filter wheel so that I can load all of my filters in (to save time) at the moment it would mean taking the imaging train apart and reloading a different carousel
3. Getting imaging time ie no clouds, no work, no moon, I was lucky to get the 2 hours in for this shot
I think this will be one of my many projects for the future so thanks for the suggestion, your comments are always very welcome as they give me ideas and tips to help me advance
Best wishes
Gordon