Veil Nebula Complex in Cygnus

[Nicola]

I already introduced here in the past a 2 frames mosaic of the Supernova Remnant G65.2+5.7 which was my first mosaic and my first attempt at RGBHO composition.
Today instead I share with you my new image of the Veil Nebula Complex. Also for this one I used an RGBHO composition of two frames. I definetely prefer my latest rendering especially as far as the OIII color is concerned.
Actually I belive I'll reprocess G65.2+5.7 with the new color composition too

Technical details and high-res: http://www.skymonsters.net/immagine.php?img=VeilNebula.jpg

C&C always welcome
Nicola

[Larryp]

Superb, Nicola! Colours are beautiful:thumbsup:

[jakob]

A fantastic image!
Lovely colours!
Thanks for sharing.:eyepop:

[Nicola]

Thanks a lot Larry! :)

[David Fitz-Henr]

That's a great image Nicola; you've picked up lots of the extended nebulosity and brought out the colours well. My only comment would be that the nebula appears slightly oversaturated/sharpened to me, but then I'm not an expert on NB images though! :)

[lacad01]

What a beauty :thumbsup:

[Nicola]

Thank you Jakob!! :)

[cybereye]

Nicola,

Just superb! :thumbsup:

Auguri,
Mario

[Paul Haese]

Looks great, nice colours. I would like to see a much larger image on the site though.

[Gem]

Ditto on the colours! Very nice! :)

[RB]

Lovely image Nicola.
I love this area.

:thumbsup:

[gregbradley]

Beautiful Nicola.

Greg.

[Nicola]

Hi David, thank you for you criticism. I am a newbie of NB too, but I believe me I didn't do any sharpening at all, this is what it came out from Ha and OIII and that's it. As far as saturation is concerned instead I could have over emphasized it, I'll have a look at it.

[Ross G]

Great photo Nicola.

Sharp with beautiful colours.


Ross.

[multiweb]

Nice pic. Great details and colours. :thumbsup:

[jjjnettie]

If looks as if I could put on a pair of 3D glasses and the whole nebula would just pop out. :)
Beautiful work Nicola.

[Davey]

Its not often you see the Veil Nebula compl:D
ete. very nice work

[gregbradley]

Nicola,

Careful about colour. People have different views on this and I think you'll find its often quite subjective. Sure there is a natural look and its easy with digital to get too enthusiastic with the saturation slider but in your image to my eye saturation is perfect. To someone elses' it is easily not this or that. So to be fair to you my advice would be to look at other examples of imagers you respect the work of. Then adjust to create a natural look. Also others monitors may or may not be callibrated (mine is not for example) so take comments about colour looking through this viewpoint.

I also have learnt over the years processing that I tended at first to oversaturate and now I tend to pull back various sliders to a more conservative push on colour and get my colour contrast in other ways rather than straight saturation slider. As with other aspects of astrophotography, there is no susbtitute for dark skies, good seeing and long exposure - many hours. Almost every top image I have seen has been minimum 4 hours long and often 20 hours. Sometimes even 30 for the remote observatory crowd.

Again I feel your colour is perfect and it is in fact a very colourful object much like our Vela Supernova Remnant.

Sometimes people help you notice a colour cast though and that is valuable input but too saturated, not saturated enough to some degree is your take on the object. Stars are a good way to tell if you are taking it too far or not far enough. There should be a sprinkling of blue, yellow and white stars. That gives a reference point. Clearly blue stars are not bright blue noe yellow ones dark yellow. Our own sun is a reference point for a yellow dwarf.