Imaging Western Veil, Ghost of Cassiopeia and Heart nebulae (NGC6960, IC59-63, IC1805)

The guiding did not work today as well. Furthermore I made the mistake of saving the images as TIF format, where red and green are swapped. Very annoying and the image quality is far off from what it was yesterday.

Nevertheless I could save a little bit.

There is green skyglow visible on this session's images.

For almost all images

Instrument : Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
Camera : Omegon veTec 533 C / no filters / Gain : 256, Offset : 150 / Temp : -10 Deg C
Exposure : Image series - see below images
Software : N.I.N.A, SIRIL, GraXpert, Gimp

Western Veil NGC5960
another try
Date - Time : 31 August 2024 - 1957+ UT
Series : 30 * 120 sec (= 60 Minutes)

Ghost of Cassiopeia IC59 and IC63 nebulae
Gave me a surprise
Date - Time : 31 August 2024 - 2058+ UT
Series : 74 * 120 sec (= 148 Minutes)

Centre of the Heart nebula IC1805
Another first - needs a lot more exposure time
Date - Time : 31 August 2024 - 2330+ UT
Series : 59 * 120 sec (= 118 Minutes)

Equipment

Optics              : Omegon Pro APO Triplet ED FCD-100 d=85 f=510mm Apochromat (f=1/6)
                    : Intes MK-67 Maksutov Type Reflector d=150mm f=1800mm (f=1/12)
Camera              : Omegon veTec 533 C Colour CMOS Camera with IMX533 square 9MP sensor 3,75µm pixels
                    : QHY 5III715C Colour CMOS IMX715 8,2MP sensor 1,45um pixels high speed
                    : NIKON D7000 DSLR unmodified (from 2011)
                    : The Imaging Source DMK21AU4.AS monochrome USB highspeed camera
                    : Panasonic LUMIX G110 MFT System (from 2021)
Filter              : IR/UV Cut, Astronomik H-Alpha, Astronomik LRGB set + filter drawer
add. optics         : ED 2x Barlow lens, eyepiece projection
                    : 35mm, 50mm, 135mm and 200mm NIKON lenses available
                    : 2.8/60mm Sigma, 12 .. 60mm Leica for MFT system
Mount               : VIXEN GP Highspeed Step Motors (Non Vixen Motors)
Controller          : EQStar Pro (since May 2023)
Guiding             : PHD2
Aquisition          : DELL Notebooks (Windows 10 & Windows 11), SharpCap, FireCapture and others
Image Processing    : DeepSkyStacker, Siril, Gimp and others

latest list update  : September 2024