NGC 6960
Western Veil Nebula

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Location & Date Backyard, Abbott Observatory - Oct. 26, 2006
Temperature mid 40's°F, Transparency - Good, Seeing - 4/5
Telescope Orion ED80 Refractor, F/7.5 on a Losmandy G11, Prime Focus, Image scale 2.54 arcsec/pixel
Camera SBIG ST-2000XCM color camera
CCD temp -20°C
Exposure Times 16 X 15 minutes - 4 hours
Other Information Image acquisition and guiding - CCDSoft V5
Image Processing * Images Plus 2.75 - Calibration, Bayer Interpolate, Grading, Alignment, Sigma Clipped Average Combine, mild DDP, 5 iterations of R/L deconvolution.
* Adobe CS - Levels, Curves, Masks, Sharpening, Cropping, JPEG conversion

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© 2006 Michael A. Siniscalchi