Veil Nebula 8/22/16Posted By Charles Stevenson |
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.
. It was pretty awesome to be in the path of totality! The birds all got really quiet and when the sun was totally eclipsed there were tons of stars. The horizon all the way around was a deep blue and red like the last traces of a sunset. I remember seeing quite a few telescopes setup (NASA also if I remember). I used a piece of what I think is welder's glass to look at it. The temperature dropped quite noticeably too...
