Veil Nebula

[Jeffkop]

Hi all

Wow is this one a dim object. Last nights efforts with only a small bump up in contrast just to make the nebulosity a little more visible. Just noticed that I havent registered the blue image correctly .. fix it next run.

Image data

Lum 3x 20mins 1x1
Red 1x 20mins 1x1
Green 1x 20mins 1x1
Blue 1x 20mins 1x1

Is going to require a lot more data to make a reasonable image.

Thanks for lookin

[Garyh]

Thats a nice result Jeff :thumbsup: ,you will have to make a 2 panel image next time to get most of it and it shall be a real beauty!

[Jeffkop]

Thanx Gary ... might have to throw the focal reducer on I think ... I havent played with it yet .. looks like its time though ... will fit the lot in with that on I think.

[Lester]

Looks good Jeff.

[h0ughy]

well done

[Ric]

Very nice Jeff, love that wispy nebulosity.

[bluescope]

Good effort Jeff.

I did a coarse GradientXTerminator filter on your image to see how it dealt with the excess reds on bottom half of pic. Here's the result alongside your posting to see effect. Hope you don't mind .... just something to do .... I'm a bit bored.
You could also pull the red levels down in the red channel to get a similar result if you don't have GXT.

:thumbsup:

[Matty P]

Beautiful Jeff,

Very well done. :thumbsup:

[beren]

:thumbsup: Top image Jeff, very nice result on a tough target

[Jeffkop]

Hi all, thanx for helping here.
Steve thats BRILLIANT ... now , whats a GXT and where do I get one !!!

Hopefully back out tonight for some more lum data on it .. spend some time realigning the blue data

[Kevnool]

This is a nice image to capture also to observe with an 0III filter easy to find with the bright star 52 Cygni ( hope i spelt it right )...Cheers Kev.

[bluescope]

Hi Jeff

GXT is my abreviation for GradientXTerminator a software plug in for Photoshop .... you can download a demo version for 30 days to try it out and if you like it, as I did and others have, it costs US$50 for a license. It's a very useful program for dealing with light gradients written by Russell Croman, a very good astrophotographer in USA.
Here's a link

http://www.rc-astro.com/resources/GradientXTerminator/index.php

If you don't know of Russell Croman you should check out his images as well .... excellent stuff. He has a remote control observatory in dark skies location. Lucky, rich " bar steward ".

Cheers

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