SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
davide.mascoli.1982
Location of Photo:
Certosa di Pavia, Italy
Date/Time of photo:
9th,10th and 29th August 2024
Equipment:
Primalucelab Airy APO ED 100mm @f/6 refractor, 2" field-flattener, Optolong L-eNhance filter, QHY294C @ 1°C - bin 1x1 - Gain 1600 - Offset 40. On Celestron AVX mount and QHY5L-II as guide-camera..
Description:
Last summer I reached a dream: "NGC6960" (the "Western Veil Nebula" ) and the "Pickering's Triangle" as a "wave of energy" in the constellation Cygnus, shooted from home (I realized in the roof an openable skylight of 1 meter squared)! This spectacular supernova remnant appears as a filamentary region of heated and ionized gas, part of the main "Cygnus Loop Nebula", covering an angular diameter of roughly 3 degrees. The photo has been obtained by integrating 10 hours of signal in narrow bands then post-processed carefully in PixInsight in order to emphasize all details. I wished to collect 20 hours of total integration time but the weather did not let me to reach the goal. However the sky is always there and the adventure continues! Davide Mascoli.
