Flamin' Veil

[RickS (Rick)]

I'm processing a big Veil mosaic and decided to try some experiments for generating hue variations. Here's the result of a little CIE L*c*h* manipulation of just the Ha. I kinda like it I hope it doesn't blind anybody...

Edit: added slight repro.

Higher res version on Astrobin: http://www.astrobin.com/141108/0/

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Wow - sunglasses on. Certainly unusual Rick. I've never seen the veil like that before.

Cheers

Steve

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Wow. Looks like it's on fire!

[skysurfer]

Amazing ! Is it taken in Halpha ?
Last summer (sorry winter for AU) I took the Veil in Halpha but not so spectacularly.

[gvanhau (Geert)]

Very impressive.

At first I tougth it was a kind of sun flare

Geert

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by Stevec35

Wow - sunglasses on. Certainly unusual Rick. I've never seen the veil like that before.

Thanks, Steve. I've never noticed an example of someone manipulating hues like this before. Not sure yet if it's a useful technique or just a dumb idea.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Wow. Looks like it's on fire!

That's the look I was going for

Originally Posted by skysurfer

Amazing ! Is it taken in Halpha ?
Last summer (sorry winter for AU) I took the Veil in Halpha but not so spectacularly.

Yes, it's just plain old Hydrogen Alpha with some hue variation based on brightness.

Originally Posted by gvanhau

Very impressive.

At first I tougth it was a kind of sun flare

Thanks, Geert. It does have that look, doesn't it.

[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Steve, that's masterful! Love it. A flame is a perfect metaphor for the turulence of the SNR.
Cheers, Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, Mike.

Cheers,
Rick.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

That looks pretty cool Rick, a great piece for for a wall in the right place

Mike

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

That looks pretty cool Rick, a great piece for for a wall in the right place

Mike

Ta, Mike. It would match some of the abstract paintings we have on the walls at home quite well.

[ozstronomer (Geoff)]

Very striking image Rick and interesting what can be done with just Ha data.

Well done

Geoff

[RickS (Rick)]

Originally Posted by ozstronomer

Very striking image Rick and interesting what can be done with just Ha data.

Well done

Thanks, Geoff! I thought it was worth a try. Will be interesting to see if the technique is useful to enhance the bi-colour combine.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne (Justin Tilbrook)]

That's hot Rick!!

Sorry about that.

A really different look for the Veil, nice.

Cheers,

Justin.

[andyc (Andy)]

That's rather fun, and quite artistic. It reminded me a little of the slow-motion videos of exploding hydrogen balloons, which is somehow ever so slightly appropriate, even if the processes are very different

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks Justin & Andy! Working on a more conventional bi-colour now. It's quite slow working on a huge mosaic even with a fast computer

[astronobob (Bob)]

Holey moley Rick, you gotta stop using this 'High Power' stuff or youll wipe out the universe - it one thing that miners are extracting out of planet earth with desastrous effects - but you extracting all this light is insane

[RickS (Rick)]

Ha, thanks Bob

[Ross G]

Wow!....what a view.

Great detail.

Ross.

[RickS (Rick)]

Thanks, Ross.