With recent weather hampering the sky, the last week as been a guarded reprieve. To overcome a bit of nature’s challenge, I decided to image some brighter objects: NGC 6559 in Sagittarius and the iconic Pillars of Creations (M16) in Serpens. NGC 6559 isn’t a real common target due to its close proximity to the Lagoon Nebula. Yet still bright by comparison to many other imaging targets, it still presents an interesting subject with its dark winding, snake like, nebulosity. Classified a star-forming, emission nebula, it presents an interesting target that didn’t require a lot of imaging time and bright enough to be forgiving to poor sky conditions. Up next is M16 & the Pillars of Creation. Considerably brighter than NGC6559, it is one of the highlights of the night sky. Both images were shot in Narrow band: Ha, OxyIII and Sii, plus a quadband light pollution filter. I found this combination improves the resulting image over standard NB production.
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Wow! Both images are beautiful! Great job!
Very nice & beautiful images.
Thanks..
Stan
Nice narrowband work. Was this your SCT? What sub-exposure and integration time did you use? Is it a single shot color using a multi-band filter? Or separate images?