Veil Nebula 8/22/16

Started by [email protected], 08/23/2016 05:38PM
Posted 08/23/2016 05:38PM Opening Post
After a lengthy break I took my first deep sky photo last night of the Veil Nebula. This is the first draft so just quickly stretched the levels and curves to make it pop out... I felt like tossing the telescope after an hour or so of trying to get everything aligned... my stars weren't even round in the center so I was fighting mirror tilt... Interestingly I noticed that for the size chip in my Canon 6D it doesn't appear I can get full illumination. It's a rather large secondary mirror as it stands and I hate to think about it but perhaps a larger one would be in order for these wide shots. I mean it does fully fit but just barely and so I'm thinking that could be the source of some of the vignetting.... this is a crop.. got rid of some of the coma on the edges.

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Posted 08/23/2016 09:00PM #1
Looks nice, which scope were you using? A Cannon 6D has a pretty big chip, so full illumination can be an issue.

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Posted 08/28/2016 10:49AM #2