Eastern Veil

[RickS]

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]

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

[traveller]

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

[RickS]

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



The colours are definitely well into Andy territory :lol: Thanks :thumbsup:

[RickS]

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

[atalas]

:eyepop: and It only took 56.4 hours.....your slipping :lol:

Man...isn't the detail amazing :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[cometcatcher]

Splendid electric image Rick!

[Slawomir]

Fantastic image Rick. Full resolution image is well worth exploring :thumbsup:

Is there a neat way to tackle halos around brighter stars that have nebulosity in the background?

[Placidus]

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]

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



Thanks, Kevin.



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.



Thanks, M&T.



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.



Thanks, Tim.

[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.

[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.

Peter

[strongmanmike]

Up in Cairns, so only looking at it on my phone...but it really looks fantastic, cant wait to view on a monitor :thumbsup: The image of the Wizard throwing the bolt of fire is striking....havent you done this from SRO before...?

Mike

[RickS]

Thanks, Andrew! Automated scopes rule :)



Thanks very much, Peter.



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 :lol:

[Atmos]

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

[marc4darkskies]

Yep, superb Rick. Very striking indeed! :thumbsup:

[el_draco]

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

[JA]

An incredible and unique image :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[RickS]

Thanks, Colin. I'm putting together some images for printing today for an exhibit and I may well include this one.



Thanks very much, Marcus.



Thanks, Rom :lol:



Thanks, JA.

[DJT]

Oh My!
Full Rez it's quite something. I took a wander around the edges to see the faint stuff, really impressive, espcialy liked the blue coming through just behind the red "bow waves" at the top of the image.

The colours selected do a great job of binging out the detail.

:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, David. I wish we had time to do a mosaic at that resolution. It would make a fantastic large print.

[Paul Haese]

A striking image of this area, though I think I prefer the bi-colour version myself. Detail is very nice on the high resolution image too.

[vlazg]

Hi Rick,
When i first looked at the thumbnail i thought the image was ok but the palette did not appeal very much but when i looked at it in hi-res it totally changed my mind, the details are amazing and the colours are brilliant.

Superb as usual

[RickS]

Thanks, Paul. I took the view that there are already a *lot* of bi-colour images of the Eastern Veil so I should try to offer an alternative :D

[RickS]

Thanks, George! I just sent a print file off to Image Science. Will be interesting to see how it comes up.

[rustigsmed]

great stuff Rick, fantastic colour and detail.

russ

[RickS]

Thanks, Russ!

[LewisM]

Damn it Rick, you owe me a new monitor - that burnt right in! I think I can see it even when the screen is turned off!

[RickS]

Sorry Lewis, that's probably your retina or optic nerve that's on the fritz and they aren't covered by warranty :lol:

[LewisM]

I'm sueing

[RickS]

Act of god :thumbsup: I don't make the photons. I just collect 'em. :lol:

[LewisM]

Touche :)

[Camelopardalis]

Ripper Rick :eyepop: that's been on my AstroFest hit list as long as I've been imaging (admittedly not all that long :lol:), I could prolly use a hand ;)

[RickS]

Thanks, Dunk. I should be at AF again this year. We can have a Veilathon :lol:

[Camelopardalis]

Ah, you saw through my thinly veiled hints ;) Sounds awesome :D :lol:

[willik]

You are on fire Rick top image
Martin

[RickS]

Thanks, Martin :)

[strongmanmike]

Ok, now finally looking at it on a big screen...and yep, it still looks bloody great Rick. :thumbsup:

Mike

[RickS]

Thanks, Mikey! We've collected a few more hours of data. Now I have to decide if it is worth a repro...

[alan meehan]

Rick damn nice shot enjoy astrofest
AL

[RickS]

Thanks, Al. Hope you're on the mend!

[Camelopardalis]

+1 echo that, get well and get up here Alan :thumbsup:

[Shiraz]

Cracking good image Rick. Full in the face wow, but not OTT !:thumbsup:

[RickS]

Thanks, Ray.

[multiweb]

Think I saw this one somewhere... :question:
Top shot. :)

[RickS]

Thanks, Marc :lol: