NGC6960; The Witches Broom through high clouds

[astrovirus]

The last couple of days provided excelent summer weather in The Netherlands, with accomodating clear nights as well, although Saturday night high cloud rolled in at night fall.

But at 1:30 AM, the sky still showed plenty of stars and I decided to star imaging NGC 6960, part of the Veil Nebula Complex, as it had *** up out of light polution.

I was quite surprised on how this came out, considering the high clouds that were present (see Sat24 screen shot taken during exposure of frame 2 or 3).

Largere image (link on bottom of the page) and details on my site

NGC6960

[skywatcher1701]

very nice well done

[Gina]

Great start - some more data and you'll have a wonderful image

[Shibby]

Very nice capture!

I know it was through high cloud, but it looks to my eye that the contrast could be improved a bit to reveal the nebula a bit more? 52 Cygni & its halo will be very tricky to control though...

[Quatermass]

Very nice I had a try at this but it needs much more data to bring it out and my guiding system is down at the moment.