Here is a small two-panel mosaic of the Vela Supernova Remnant, just a small section of the much larger object. I sacrificed some angular resolution using 2x2 binning in an attempt to go really deep and capture some of those intricate but exceedingly faint wisps of light that makes this region so exciting to explore with a CCD camera.
Love that. My favourite southern hemisphere object and you've done it very well. 2x2 was a good choice as depth over a tiny improvement in detail is the win factor here.
Murray that's great! The colour scheme works well for Ha/OIII. Fantastic depth and detail.
So we can see where your bit sits in the big picture, would you care to confess Ra / Dec of centre, FOV, which way is North?
Well, you never can tell when an image comes together and is a winner. Perhaps in six months from now I will review this image with a fresh mind and decide it was OK after all. Thanks for your positive comments.
I quickly used the plate solver script in PI to analyse one of the linear images used to construct the final colour image. These are the numbers it returned, which seem about right according to my printed star atlas.
A fantastic aspect of the extended Vela SNR region is the intricate network of wispy OIII emissions that complement the H alpha emissions, but also stand alone as strong evocative features. For most gaseous nebulas, the OIII emission usually emanates from the bright, central region, with more of the interesting detail in the H alpha emissions.
The PI training course that Rick S gave on Easter Monday is helping me to lift my game, very slowly. Thanks for the encouraging comments.
Well, you never can tell when an image comes together and is a winner. Perhaps in six months from now I will review this image with a fresh mind and decide it was OK after all. Thanks for your positive comments.
I quickly used the plate solver script in PI to analyse one of the linear images used to construct the final colour image. These are the numbers it returned, which seem about right according to my printed star atlas.
Beautiful Murray, I was working on a similar one myself recently but it was too late in the year to complete it.
Yours looks terrific, well done
Andy, I think you are posting some amazing images and I plan to try to emulate one of them. Once I have reproduced something similar using my own data, I will re-process the data using an experimental work flow and hopefully I will create a unique portrait. I doubt it will have the same wow-wee factor as your original image, but at least it gives me another goal to help extend myself.
