Eastern Veil

[RickS (Rick)]

The Eastern Veil in narrowband with a little RGB for star colour. High res version on Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/full/306075/0/

Processed with various pre-release versions of PI 1.8.5. Thanks for looking. Capture details below...

Captured at SRO, June-July, 2017

Objects in image:
NGC6992, NGC6995, IC1340

Scope: Ceravolo C300 @ f/4.9 = 1470mm FL
Mount: AP1100
Camera: FLI PL16803
Focuser: Atlas
Filters: Astrodon
Guiding: Lodestar II / Tak guide scope
Image scale: 1.26 arcsec/pixel (Drizzled to double res)
Exposures: 48x300s R, 52x300s G, 37x300s B, 27x1800s Ha, 31x1800s Oiii, 32x1800s Sii (56.4 hours)
Processing: PixInsight 1.8.5

Acquisition credit: Scott Johnson, Augusto Hernandez, John Kasianowicz, Daniele Malleo, Jose Mtanous and Rick Stevenson
Processing credit: Rick Stevenson

[gregbradley]

Wow, what a stunner!

A high impact image that is electrifying!

It looks like a band of fire across the sky. I wish we could get this one from the southern hemisphere.

Greg.

[Andy01 (Andy)]

Boom!
Where are my sunnies
High impact pic there Rick - not for the feint of heart
I love it BTW

[traveller (Bo)]

That's spectacular Rick.
So much detail with the gaseous filaments.
I fully expected to see the Enterprise emerge from the shockwaves.
Bo

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Wow, what a stunner!

A high impact image that is electrifying!

It looks like a band of fire across the sky. I wish we could get this one from the southern hemisphere.

Thanks, Greg. It's definitely one of the objects that makes a northern remote scope worthwhile

Originally Posted by Andy01

Boom!
Where are my sunnies
High impact pic there Rick - not for the feint of heart
I love it BTW

The colours are definitely well into Andy territory Thanks

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by traveller

That's spectacular Rick.
So much detail with the gaseous filaments.
I fully expected to see the Enterprise emerge from the shockwaves.

Ta, Bo. It would be like the poodle jumping through the ring of flame

[atalas]

and It only took 56.4 hours.....your slipping

Man...isn't the detail amazing

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Splendid electric image Rick!

[Slawomir (Suavi)]

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?

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

An image such as youths dream of.

[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.

Cheers
Martin

[topheart]

Very good Rick!!
Very striking.
I haven't seen many HaO3S2 versions of this.
Cheers,
Tim

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by atalas

and It only took 56.4 hours.....your slipping

Man...isn't the detail amazing

Thanks, Louie. One of my SRO colleagues just suggested we need more data, so maybe I can get those hours up

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Splendid electric image Rick!

Thanks, Kevin.

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.

Originally Posted by Placidus

An image such as youths dream of.

Thanks, M&T.

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.

Originally Posted by topheart

Very good Rick!!
Very striking.
I haven't seen many HaO3S2 versions of this.

Thanks, Tim.

[alocky (Andrew lockwood)]

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.

[PRejto (Peter)]

I do believe that we now have firm evidence for fire breathing dragons.

Seriously good. The image seems to be alive; anything but static.

Peter

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

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...?

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by alocky

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

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.

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

[Atmos (Colin)]

Really nice Rick. That printed on a nice metallic paper would just jump out from the wall!

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

Yep, superb Rick. Very striking indeed!

[el_draco (Rom)]

Two words... and the second one is "me"!!!!!