NGC6995 The Veil Nebula

[ashworthacca]

Yesterday was my 40th birthday and I spent a great day with friends, enjoying the great weather and drinking a little too much champagne and red wine. To top it all off last night's skies were very clear so despite being a little too drunk to be setting up for an imaging session......I did and managed to take a few snaps of M13, M51 and the Veil Nebula. Anyway, here's my first attempt at processing The Veil Nebula.

NGC6995 The Veil Nebula by ashworthacca, on Flickr

Baader Modified Canon 1000d on Orion ED80, Unguided, 20x180secs lights and 5x180secs darks, ISO800, Stacked in DSS and processed in PS.

Comments and criticisms always welcome. Thanks for looking

[moocher]

My sober images arn't this good!!!

Alan

[adamsp123]

Nice capture Martin, maybe Champers would be the answer for me.

[paul11]

Very nice Martin, I was going to image this one last night but after looking at a 300 sec sub I knew it was going to take 600 sec+ subs to get an image so I went for NGC 6888 instead, a lot easier,,,Paul.

[LukeSkywatcher]

Looks like the little drinkies paid off Ash. Very nicely done.

[Beyond_Vision]

Sounds and looks like you had a great day.

Happy Birthday

[ashworthacca]

Thanks guys, I would have gone for longer subs if I could have got my head around guiding with my Synguider (I've used it a couple of times but still not 100% sure I know what I'm doing) but I'm quite happy with what I ended up with.

Here's M13 from last night too.

M13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules by ashworthacca, on Flickr

20x180 secs lights, 5x180 secs darks, stacked in DSS and processed in PS

[ashworthacca]

Sounds and looks like you had a great day.

Happy Birthday

Thank you.....yep it turned out to be a great day.

[JonH]

Awesome shot of the Veil Nebula Martin. What a fantastic way to top off a 40th birthday.

Happy birthday for yesterday!

[ashworthacca]

Awesome shot of the Veil Nebula Martin. What a fantastic way to top off a 40th birthday.

Happy birthday for yesterday!

Thanks Jon.

[ashworthacca]

I've revisited this and done a quick re-edit......do you think its getting better or worse than the original? I'm trying to work on a process for reducing the stars but bringing out the luminosity of the nebula.

NGC6995 The Veil Nebula by ashworthacca, on Flickr

Thanks guys

[Deneb]

Happy 40th Martin, A nice capture for unguided..

Nadeem..

[ashworthacca]

Happy 40th Martin, A nice capture for unguided..

Nadeem..

Coming from the king of unguided images Nadeem that is really appreciated.

Thank you.

[Patrick1948]

Happy 40th Martin.....Brill images, I'm inspired now!!

[ashworthacca]

Happy 40th Martin.....Brill images, I'm inspired now!!

Thanks very much Patrick:)