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- Data collection using:
CCD Commander
CCDSoft
FocusMax
PinPoint
TheSky6 Pro
- Image Calibration - Maxim DL
- Image Registration - Maxim DL
- Image Stacking - Maxim DL
- Post processing in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended
This is a first attempt at a mosaic of three panels of the FOV from my Astro Tech 8" RC and SBIG ST-2000 camera. Each of the panels is 1 hr 15 minutes each of Red, Green, & Blue binned 2x2.
The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus. It constitutes the visible portions of the Cygnus Loop (radio source W78, or Sharpless 103), a large but relatively faint supernova remnant. The source supernova exploded some 5,000 to 8,000 years ago, and the remnants have since expanded to cover an area roughly 3 degrees in diameter (about 6 times the diameter, or 36 times the area, of the full moon). The distance to the nebula is not precisely known, but recent evidence from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) supports a distance of about 1,470 light-years.
-Wikipedia
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