Data from November 17th and 19th 2025 were used for this image.
The equipment used were an Altair Starwave ASCENT 60ED doublet refractor with field-flattener, a Pegasus FocusCube v2 focuser, an SVBONY 605CC 14 bit OSC camera, an Altair 2” magnetic filter holder version 2 containing an Altair quadband filter. All were mounted on a Celestron AVX mount. An SVBONY SV165 guide-scope fitted with a QHY-5II-M guide camera was mounted on the imaging scope. An INDI server was running on a Linux computer indoors. The guide camera was connected by USB to another Linux computer indoors running PHD2 autoguiding software via the INDI server. The mount and the focuser were controlled by AstroDMx Capture via the INDI server.
24 x 5 minute exposure frames of the West Veil nebula and Pickering's triangle and 24 x 5 minute exposure overlapping frames of the East Veil nebula and Pickering's triangle were captured on separate nights along with 5 dark frames, 50 flats and 50 bias frames.
The data were calibrated, debayered, stacked and part processed in PixInsight and further processed using GraXpert, Gimp3, MS Image Composite Editor to stitch the two stacked images together and SetiAstroSuitePro for Texture, Clarity, Cosmic sharpen and denoise.
Click on the image to get a closer view
The Veil nebulae and Pickering's Triangle
The SVBONY 605CC 14 bit OSC camera performed very well with this equipment.
