Acquisition credit: Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez, John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Jose Mtanous and Rick Stevenson
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson
Very cool Rick. Is there a lot of SII in this object? I did this using Ha and OIII only also from SRO.
You say you drizzled the data to double the resolution. Did you actually achieve 0.63 asp using this method i.e half the the resolution your scope is able of producing?
Thanks, Louie. One of my SRO colleagues just suggested we need more data, so maybe I can get those hours up
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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
Splendid electric image Rick!
Thanks, Kevin.
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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Fantastic image Rick. Full resolution image is well worth exploring
Is there a neat way to tackle halos around brighter stars that have nebulosity in the background?
Thanks, Suavi. I'm sure that some messing around with PixelMath to combine star and RangeSelection masks would make it possible to fix the halos.
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Originally Posted by Placidus
An image such as youths dream of.
Thanks, M&T.
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Originally Posted by Martin Pugh
Very cool Rick. Is there a lot of SII in this object? I did this using Ha and OIII only also from SRO.
You say you drizzled the data to double the resolution. Did you actually achieve 0.63 asp using this method i.e half the the resolution your scope is able of producing?
Super image.
Thanks, Martin. Yes, there's quite a bit of Sii. I suspect that there aren't many SHO images because a basic Hubble palette doesn't work that well for the Veil. At least it didn't for me...
I usually drizzle 2x and then when I'm done processing I resample 0.75x. Drizzle definitely gives a resolution improvement for this set up at SRO, but it's not the whole 2x.
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Originally Posted by topheart
Very good Rick!!
Very striking.
I haven't seen many HaO3S2 versions of this.
This is a seriously interesting (and well executed!) veil image, Rick! As others have remarked already it looks like a fairly deep exposure is needed to pull out the SII response.
Up in Cairns, so only looking at it on my phone...but it really looks fantastic, cant wait to view on a monitor The image of the Wizard throwing the bolt of fire is striking....havent you done this from SRO before...?
This is a seriously interesting (and well executed!) veil image, Rick! As others have remarked already it looks like a fairly deep exposure is needed to pull out the SII response.
Thanks, Andrew! Automated scopes rule
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Originally Posted by PRejto
I do believe that we now have firm evidence for fire breathing dragons.
Seriously good. The image seems to be alive; anything but static.
Thanks very much, Peter.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Up in Cairns, so only looking at it on my phone...but it really looks fantastic, cant wait to view on a monitor The image of the Wizard throwing the bolt of fire is striking....havent you done this from SRO before...?
Thanks, Mikey! I have previously done a 6 panel mosaic of the Veil using our original FSQ-106 at SRO and also a SHO NB image of the "Fangs" part of the Eastern Veil using the RCOS 14.5" at DSW. This one is in between the two in terms of FOV and resolution and has its own special charm, IMHO