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Witch’s Broom Nebula (NGC 6960)
NGC 6960
Photographer: Macastronomer
Imaging type: Deep Sky
Object type: Nebula
Imaging summary
- Optics model
- FRA300
- Camera model
- SmartEye
- Effective focal length (mm)
- 300
- Acquisition start date
- 2026-09-13
- General location (public)
- Lanesboro, MN
About this photograph
Wester Veil Nebula (Witch’s Broom Nebula NGC 6960)
Taken with Pegasus SmartEye camera, 15 second subs through 3 filters (167—IR/UV, 296—Optolong extreme, 184—Optolong Synergy). Stacked and aligned in Siril, stretched and converted to 16 bit TIF in Photoshop, exported to 8big JPG in Photoshop.
Astronomical target
- Target name
- Witch's Broom Nebula
- Catalog designation
- NGC 6960
- Right ascension (HH:MM:SS)
- 20:45:38
- Declination (±DD:MM:SS)
- +30:42:30
Acquisition
- Acquisition start date
- 2026-09-13
- Acquisition end date
- 2026-09-14
- General location (public)
- Lanesboro, MN
- Additional notes
- First Light for my Askar FRA300 from about 11:07PM to 2:56AM. Some time spent between filters, some images tossed, may have stopped for wispy clouds to pass a couple times.
Copyright and license
- Copyright holder
- Free to use
- License
- No license required
- Rights notes
- Use at will.
Optics
- Telescope or lens
- Quintuplet ED Refracter
- Optics manufacturer
- Askar
- Optics model
- FRA300
- Aperture (mm)
- 60
- Effective focal length (mm)
- 300
- Effective focal ratio
- 5
- Reducer
- none
- Flattener
- none
- Barlow or focal extender
- none
- Other optical accessories
- Askar filter drawer, UV/IR cut filter, Optolong eXtreme and Optolong Synergy
Camera
- Camera manufacturer
- Pegasus
- Camera model
- SmartEye
- Camera type
- Astronomy
- Gain
- 125
- Offset
- 0
- Sensor temperature (°C)
- 0
- Binning
- 0
Mount and guiding
- Mount or tracker
- SkyWatcher EQ6-R Pro
- Guiding camera
- none
- Guide scope or OAG
- none
- Guiding software
- none
Conditions
- Bortle class or estimate (e.g. 3, 3.5, 3-4)
- 4
- Seeing
- Great
- Transparency
- fair
- Moon illumination (%)
- 7
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent
- Conditions notes
- It was a Glorious Night for Astronomy
Calibration
- Dark frames
- 1
- Flat frames
- 0
- Bias frames
- 0
- Dark flats
- 0
Processing
- Processing software
- Siril
- Processing notes
- Stack and Align, stretch and export in Photoshop