Optical components of the Cygnus Loop

[rcj]

Hi all,

Here's a project consisting of two images captured of the optical components of the Cygnus Loop - centered around the Veil Nebula Complex, a faint supernova remnant about 1500LY distant currently. The first image is a wide field version showing the Complex in its entirety taken with a 180mm camera lens coupled onto the ST8300M CCD camera (from the Mersing trip two weeks ago). The second image is the popular Eastern Veil Nebula up-close (NGC6992), taken with the Epsilon astrograph, re-processed again (from the May Mersing trip). Both images are total 45min each in RGB exposures.

[cataclysm]

Nice! Nice! Nice! Astrograph is it!

[weixing]

Hi,
WOW! Super image!!

So many stars....

On the bottom of the first image, there seem to be a patch of lesser stars there... Any idea what's that?

By the way, I notice that the image seem to be a mirror image... Will the the Epsilon astrograph give a mirror image??

Have a nice day.

[rcj]

Thanks Kel, Weixing.

Not too sure about the region of lesser stars on the first image....is it below the western Veil area? Looks OK from my monitor.
But yes, you are right on the inverted image....but it's more of the data capture process than the telescope. Always forget to "flip" to back....

[shirox]

beautiful!