The holidays are over, the Christmas treats are gone, and the skies outside are cloudy—the perfect time for an imaging challenge. Lunatico's Instagram channel is new and we need great content, so we're inviting astro-imagers to show us what they can do with a brand new dataset.
We have got some brand new, never-before-been-processed data for you in the form of NGC 6960, The Western Veil. Five channels captured with professional equipment from southern Spain, all yours to process however you like.
The Dataset—NGC 6960, Western Veil Nebula
Five stacked exposures, five minutes each, captured with a Moravian G4 16000 camera on a PlaneWave CDK 14 telescope, operating unguided on a 10Micron GM 3000HPS mount, in southern Spain.
Channels
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- Hα
- OIII
Available in 16-bit TIFF and 32-bit XISF formats.
Submission deadline
31 January 2022
Submit to
andy@lunaticoastro.com
Format
JPEG
All skill levels and all processing software are welcome. There is no requirement to be a Lunatico customer. Include processing notes with your entry.
Winning entries will be featured on the Lunatico Instagram and potentially on the website. The judge, Harry Page, is well known in the community for his PixInsight tutorials.
Send your processed JPEG along with any notes on your processing workflow to andy@lunaticoastro.com before 31 January 2022. Good luck!