From last summer, didn't expect it would turn out ok since the Veils are not the easiest target for a small telephoto lens and I only had time to take 4 shots. But rain keeps me inside this weekend so I finally got to it. Just 4 X 60 s iso 800 with Pentax K-5 and Rokinon 135 at f/2.0. Astrotracer tracking. I guess it really shows the light gathering power of the Rokinon!

Cool now I know that I could expect to get something reasonable if I chase them with my 300. Now to be able to find them.

A 300 would do great! The brightest star is epsilon Cygni and the one just touching the western (right) part of the veil is 52 Cygni. Both stars are easy to see through the viewfinder of a camera with a 300/4 lens. Clear skies!

Hi Francois, I just realized who you are now after seeing your signature. This is Greg, one of the fellow MTL Astrophotographers You are inspiring Nigel to try his Astrotracer again. Maybe I'll try too. Very nice results!

Hi Greg, thanks! Looking forward to meeting you in person at one of the group's activity.

Polar alignment is the scourge of men! I really like the astrotracer for lens between 16-135 mm and even 200

I was more referring to being able to actually locate them in the sky. I am not very good at that yet, especially with the high light pollution where I am.

@MossyRocks A cell phone planetarium like sky safari can help you locate epsilon Cygni just by looking it up in the search function. Switching to compass mode will then help you find it in the sky. Right now at dusk end it's very high in the sky above Mars.

I can give that a try in the sky tonight. I just need to replace the battery in the O-GPS1 as it is getting flakey again. Did some shooting last night of andromeda and the last 40 or so shots had really bad trailing with only a few having good tracking at 20 seconds. The cold is just murder on batteries.

Well that didn't go as planned. I got the camera pointed in the right general area but there is just too much light pollution and probably too much moon. Had nova.astrometry.net solve the location and it should be there but it is well below the light pollution. It looks like I might stand a chance as it is a 7 apparent magnitude and I have gotten images of M51 in the back yard which is an 8.4. So maybe in 2 or 3 weeks I can have some success.

Don't hesitate to drive out. I usually drive 1.5 to 2.5 hours to find a spot in a"green" or "blue" zone. In this case the veils were shot from a "yellow" zone just 1 hr drive away from Montreal, but on a very clear night and while they were very high in the sky.
Good luck and keep us posted!

I frequently will do so I can get to a fairly dark place (a dark bortle 5 or bright 4) if I drive 40 minutes as I am in a very bright bortle 8 when it my backyard. If I go up to my lake property I can get to a very dark bortle 3. I haven't been able to sneak off as the wife has been away so I have been stuck with the kids so I am limited to the backyard and can't go out to the the nearby dark place. Going to the lake the kids don't want to stay when it is dark so that was right out over this long MEA weekend too. I'm looking forward to when the lake freezes over and I can go out and shoot from the middle of it this winter.

Thanks for the tip about sky safari as I had been using Sky Map and Star Walk 2 and both of them left a lot to be desired. there are so many programs like them many with more downloads so it is hard to know what ones are good as so many are bad. The good ones have no where near the downloads as the bad ones.

Yeah I was pretty happy too when I found that one. Good luck with the shooting!

My Veil shooting in Big Bend was pretty much a bust, despite the uber-dark skies (maybe that should be unter-dark?). Think I underexposed it -- even with a bunch of frames to stack, I have to stretch like a madman to get the arcs to show up at all. I might try again with the data, though.