Vela SNR

[niharika]

8 hrs Ha + 4 hrs O3 for now with FSQ106 + PL16803 combo. 30min exposures. My first go at BiColor (R= Ha, G= O3, B= O3) with very little processing other than curves and saturation. Lack of O3 exposures ruins it a bit but overall quite happy :D

Resized to 50%
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rakibul/16388098508/

[multiweb]

Quite a treat Raki. :thumbsup: How many FSQs do you have? :)

[niharika]

:) I had 3 so far only one left. One 106N and 2 ED.

[gregbradley]

A nice image. Perhaps a bit too colourful and a tad oversharpened for my taste but it looks good.

Greg.

[Ryderscope]

Lovely image, nice subtle detail and colours.

[strongmanmike]

Well, Raki...I recon that is a bloody sensational shot :thumbsup:

Gee that area is magnificent huh?

Lovely rendering of the fine filaments

Mike

[niharika]

Thanks mate.



With you Greg. Hopefully some additional O3 will reduce the need to push the channels. No sharpening procedure was applied but I do find it sharper as well after uploading and reducing the size through photoshop compared to the original.

[niharika]

Thanks Mike :), yes the area just asks me to go for a mosaic but the forecast says good luck with that

[pluto]

Wow that's sharp!
Beautiful image :)

[strongmanmike]

Oh yeah it's bovine faeces...I'm going stir crazy from lack of sky time :scared2: :nerd: the really annoying thing in Canberra lately is the number of nearly clear nights we have had recently, probably ok for visual by providing holes to look through but essentially crappola for imaging with lots of high cloud and haze :mad2:

Mike

[gregbradley]

I looked again and I guess it was the tiny stars that at first looked like they may have been sharpened. But you just got tiny stars - which is a good thing!

Greg.

[rustigsmed]

really nice work there Raki!
never trust the Melbourne forecast!!!

[suma126]

looks awesome :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

:lol: life is good.

[SimmoW]

Really good Raki, yes it's a great area, if only I could find it! Are there any DSOs nearby that I could use as reference to find? Or just simple coordinates?

[niharika]

NGC2899 is close by, so is Mike's giant slug http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=130973&page=2&highlight=slug. Both are outside the FOV though

I was aiming for RA 08H 33m 06s, Dec -44deg 07' 56" according to SkyX.




Thank you :)




Yep, I had better luck with cloudy forecast over clear forecast :rofl:

[multiweb]

Check here (https://public-dm2305.files.1drv.com/y2pw97ijqeMbFRAjQSM1awMH6plHX2LUBuW NrWmcKmj5Nuou_-EtOP-xkzqrtvOd6e5GP-VPq_UACCOR9tMnpG1HGs6yI65-ZY0R2tAVMyG53s/vela_ha_100mm_ff_T.jpg?psid=1). Couple of NGC objects around as reference.

[Ross G]

Great looking photo.

Love the detail.

Ross.

[dvj]

Superb image from the greatest telescope camera combination of all time.

[Paul Haese]

Well done Raki. I like the colour and the huge field of view. Having done just a small part of this recently too I would have really liked this field of view too. It is such an interesting and intriguing area. Perhaps it would be nicer to have a slightly bigger resolution image to view. At the largest resolution it appears to be about 2000 pixels wide by the same height. Maybe at 2500 it would just give that extra floating through space feel.

[Andy01]

Hells bells Raki - just when us mere mortals think we're getting ahead a little bit in Ap you come along with this image and blow us all away again!

One word for this AWESOME!!!!

Now be a good chap and go home ;)

Nah, just kidding - You continue to inspire us all mate, really well done, beautifully composed and balanced image.

Andy

[niharika]

Thank you.




Thank you Paul. Will post a higher resolution image with some additional data from last night over the weekend.



Thanks Andy for the big complement but I am a still learning and would rate myself very much in the mortal category. To be frank no matter what the user experience level is I found myself inspired by all of you guys posting here one way or the other.

[Placidus]

Achingly beautiful. Just downloaded a copy to my "Acknowledged state-of-the-art images by famous others" folder.

[RickS]

Great image, Raki! Shame about the weather. I'd love to see a mosaic :)