NGC 6960 - Witch's Broomstick

[Roy Batty]

This was taken last night between 8 & 10:30pm totalling 95mins of data. It was taken with my un-modded DSLR so there is none of the usual Ha nebulosity visible that you may associate with this target.

I had quite a trawl through the various colour interpretations of this on the web and went for an "electric blue" kind of tone which some other imagers had also chosen.

I'm pleased with the way this turned out as the more I worked on the post processing the happier I got as opposed to the usual "am I making things worse?" thoughts .

Here's the details:

Prime focus DSLR on a C8-N, 19 X 5min subs, ISO800, guided with an ED80, webcam & PHD.

cheers

RB

NGC 6960 22nd October 08

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[daz]

That's really nice Roy, I like that a lot!!

[centroid]

Very nice Roy.

Well done!!

Dave

[barkis]

That is beautiful Roy. I love that colour. This will hearten DSLR who have not had them modded.

Ron.

[LostNSpace]

Very nice Roy, good capture.......

Mark

[Roy Batty]

Thanks for the comments guys - I thought the contrast could be improved though and have given it a bit of a tweak.

RB

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[beamish]

That is a lovely image Roy

[Psychobilly]

Awesome Roy...

The electric blue makes it look like "cosmic" lightning

Billy...

[CELESCOPE]

Lovely image Roy ,captured that one atreat, and yes a very nice change to the color, like the first better myself , i prefer the less contrasted images , look more natural , but thats only my opinion .

Rog

[Roy Batty]

This is definitely the last spin on this one from me . It's actually a reduced sub-set of the subs, where I have excluded the last nine subs from the set (19) because they were suffering from increased light pollution.

Post processing I have given the nebulosity a bi-tonal look; I think this gives it a greater depth of field as opposed to my earlier mono-tonal versions. Hope this makes sense?

RB

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[Taff]

Great details in the capture nice one.Taff

[saturn5]

The colour of the first one does it for me.Been staring at the enlarged version for ages,so much detail,just beautiful.

[Roy Batty]

Thanks very much for the kind words. Tonight looks like being another fine one here in the SW, so I think I might have a bash at NGC 6979 - Pickerings Triangle. I'm just wondering if I should slap in my CLS EOS clip filter or not, and increase the sub length to compensate. It should help with the LP over to my west, plus it will let the OIII emissions through OK - any thoughts guys?

RB