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


http://www.imagingtheheavens.co.uk/U...ES/NGC6960.jpg

[winensky]

Stunning detail. There seem to be so many aproaches to handling these pseudo color images.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Lovely sharp nebula. Loads of detail.
Nice shot.

[Gama]

Ah yes, lovely image of the Witches Broomstick, almost didnt recognise it without my Mother in law riding on it.

I do like the colors you brought out though. Very crispy too.

Theo

[Craig_L]

Lovely delicate detail. The TMB I presume.

[Paramount]

Hi Craig
Thans for he comments and yes you are right it was the TMB, virtually all of my imaging is done with this now, am aiming to get an Astrosib 10" RC next year to help share the load
Best wishes
Gordon

[acropolite (Phil)]

Lovely result Gordon, great depth and sharp as a tack.