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Veil Nebula - C14 Hyperstar
The Cygnus Loop is a supernova remnant covering an enormous amount of sky (about 3degrees). It's an absolutely beautiful region with tonnes to see - and split into several components - 2 of which i've captured here: NGC6960 (Western Veil / Witch's Broom) & NGC6992 (Eastern Veil)
Catch is it's so low for us southerners. I've literally got about 90min where this thing is above my fence, but since I had the Hyperstar on the c14 after grabbing some comet pics, i knew I could get a decent amount of depth from a fairly short window of opportunity - even though I'm looking low and directly into the Sydney CBD lights.
The starfield is pretty bad after an on-the-fly attempt to fix a backspacing issue, only managing to make things 10x worse. Thats the drawback of imaging at f1.9 on and sct - its so sensitive to any misalignment, especially when I'm switching configurations back and forth. So do me a solid and don't zoom in - we'll all be happier.
60x 1min exposures each
c14 Hyperstar f1.9
eq8 Pro
ASI2600MC
IDAS NBZ Filter
Piggyback guidescope and asi290mm
ASIAIR Pro
Cheers
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