Vela is perhaps my favourite southern object. I started imaging this a long time ago and there were few images of it then.
Since then there have been some spectacular images of Vela. Rob Gendlers' 16 image mosaic probably being one of the best. Bert posted a superb narrowband image recently and Marco Lorenzi did a marvellous Pentax 300m lens 4 image mosaic.
Unfortunately The Sky X only takes you to one part of Vela. I spent probably 2 hours searching around to orient myself. I realised eventually Marco's image was sideways! I used his image to pick an area to image.
There are the 2 loop areas with a strong shockwave line running down to a Y section near the gum nebulas.
The 2 loops probably have the most detail in them and in Ha they are a maze of tiny tendrils and loops.
I plan to take some more wider images of this whilst its up and perhaps a mosaic. Its available right after dark to about 12:30am at the moment so its well placed and we have probably another month to capture it at the moment. It'd be great to have a Vela-thon here at Ice in Space. I know Bert is keen on this object.
I have another version to process which is all narrowband Ha, O111 and S11. I'll post the Ha as well which is extremely detailed.
AP140, PMX mount, Proline 16803, 4 hours 40 minutes
Ha O111 LRGB.
The 2 loops section of the Vela SNR:
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...49826915/large regular
http://upload.pbase.com/gregbradley/...26915/original large
http://upload.pbase.com/image/149956298 full resolution (15.9mb)
Ha only:
http://upload.pbase.com/image/149902700
Greg